Attitudes toward Blackness of Black Preschool Children Attending Community-Controlled or Public Schools

Abstract

Summary Two groups of black children—one exposed to a problack community school, the other not—were asked to indicate their preferences for different race dolls. It was hypothesized that children not exposed to the community school program would prefer less frequently and identify less with dolls of their own race than children who were exposed to the program. The data supported the hypothesis—children exposed to the program gave more problack responses after exposure than before, and gave more problack responses than a control group.