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Black Children Prefer White Dolls [VIDEO]
The fine folks at the Media That Matters Film Festival first found this gem that's made its way around the web more than once already...
"A Girl Like Me," a short documentary made by 17-year-old Kiri Davis, was inspired by studies done previous to Brown vs. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision that ended de jure segregation in America.
In that study, black children tended to prefer white dolls over black dolls, leading analysts to conclude that they were internalizing their second-class status -- believing themselves to be inferior.
Davis repeats the experiment 50 years later to distressing results. Powerful documentary...
The second clip is from a newscast on the filmmaker and the film...
Tagged as: race, documentary
Evan Derkacz is an AlterNet editor. He writes and edits PEEK, the blog of blogs.
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