Kids and their attitudes towards skin color

This is a segment from CNN that asks children to associate positive or negative attributes with various skin tones. This is similar to the famous 1940s experiment by husband and wife psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark that asked children which doll they preferred. The original experiment and similar recreations since have found that children of all races tend to view light skinned images more positively.


PART 1 - "Show me the dumb child"


PART 2 - "Don't really care what color they have"


PART 3 - "Why do you want that skin color?"

When should adults begin to speak to their children about race and culture? Here is a 2009 posting I wrote that addresses this issue, entitled Why Do Children Discriminate?