"GMA" examines race relations by revisiting a famous doll experiment. March 31, 2009— -- With a black first family and fewer people citing racism as a "big problem," just how much have the ...
Back in the 1940s, Kenneth and Mamie Clark – a husband-and-wife team of psychology researchers – used dolls to investigate how young Black children viewed their racial identities. They found that ...
A doll experiment by Mamie and Kenneth Clark showed that children ascribed positive characteristics to white dolls and negative characteristics to the black ones. Toni Sturdivant conducted her own ...