The black critique of brown starts with some of that psychological research, because the psychological research is profoundly problematic on many levels. Scott points out that if you actually look at the research the clark did, the black children who were most likely to have these deeply problematic responses in the doll test were those from the north who were in integrated schools. The southern kids in segregated schools did not regard the black doll as as proble. They were like, thats me fine. It was. And that result, that it was kids, from black kids, minority kids from integrated schools,. who had the most adverse reactions to their own representation ad dall is consistent with all of the previous literature on self hatred,
Journalist, author, and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell joins Tyler for a conversation on Joyce Gladwell, Caribbean identity, satire as a weapon, Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden, Harvard’s under-theorized endowment, why early childhood intervention is overrated, long-distance running, and Malcolm’s happy risk-averse career going from one “fur-lined rat hole to the next.”
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Recorded February 27th, 2017 Other ways to connect