Summary
Yet this parodying is in the same vein as the golliwog dolls that Hamleys toy shop was selling in the 90s and the Black and White Minstrels of the 50s, 60s and 70s. It wasn't funny then and it isn't funny now... even when it is done by black people joking about each other's skin tone.
In the 1930s African American psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark did a test in which three-yearolds were given a black doll and a white doll and asked which looks nice, which they would like to play with and which looks like them. Recent ly, Colourtel ly. tv repeated the 'doll test' with black British school children and showed the results in a documentary, Black Doll/ White Doll. Unfortunately the findings were as disturbing as those reported by the Clarks 70 years earlier in the racially segregated USA. Eighty per cent of the children chose the white doll as the doll they thought was 'pretty' and 'good'. Asked, 'why don't you l ike yourself?', one girl retorted 'because I am black.' While many parents work hard to teach their children that 'black is beautiful,' we clearly need to do more to support their efforts.See the full content of this document
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Loving the Way We Look Begins Early
He's so dark all you can see are the whites of his eyes and his big white teeth, youngsters used to joke when I was at college.
But these weren't racist jibes from white people; this was the way that black ...See the full content of this document
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