This chapter discusses the negative impact of segregation on children during the Jim Crow era in the United States, highlighting their absorption of racial inequality and the research conducted by Kenneth and Mamie Clark to challenge segregated environments.
Dolls can tell us a lot about how kids see the world – especially when it comes to race.
One American researcher spent months watching pre-schoolers play with dolls and what she observed shocked her.
Plus, did you know the very first study of children and their thoughts about dolls actually changed the course of American history?
First broadcast 4 April 2021.