Black Child, White Child : The Developement of Racial Attitudes

Judith Porter

ISBN 10: 0674076117 / ISBN 13: 9780674076112

Edité par Harvard University Press Jan 1971, 1971

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Neuware - 'I don't like colored people.' 'He's lazy because he's colored.' Similar attitudes have too many echoes in American society. What distinguishes these particular comments is that they were made by preschool-age children, the former by a five-year-old white, the latter by a four-year-old black. The general public might be amazed to find that statements of this type were made by such young children, yet it is now widely accepted by social scientists that racial attitudes are learned during preschool years.

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• Titre: Black Child, White Child : The Developement of Racial Attitudes
• Éditeur: Harvard University Press Jan 1971
• Date de parution: 1971
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0674076117
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780674076112
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 234 L x 154 H x 19 P (en millimètres) 234 millimètres de largeur par 154 millimètres de hauteur par 19 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 462 grammes

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Synopsis

Racial attitudes are learned during the preschool years and directly reflect the attitudes and actions of American society. Using the self-portraits, stories, and doll-play of 400 children 3 to 5 years old, Judith Porter investigated the effects of such sociological variables as age, race, skin color, social class, interracial contact, and sex, both alone and in combination with other variables on the children's racial preferences. She is one of the first to relate these attitudes to actual interaction patterns in integrated kindergartens. Her research sheds new light on the ways in which early encounters with racism and prejudice affect the self-esteem, racial self-concept, and personality development of black children. Her study includes new findings on the effect of social class on the formation of racial attitudes. She concludes with a discussion of the implications of the data for theory, for future research, and for public policy, as well as specific recommendations for the creation of high-quality integrated nursery schools.