Black child, white child; the development of racial attitudes / Judith D. R. Porter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Porter, Judith D. R., 1940-

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Harvard paperback ; 49.

Harvard paperback ; 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race awareness in children.

African American children.

Prejudices in children.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xi pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 278 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1971.

Summary:

'I don't like colored people.' 'He's lazy because he's colored.' Similar attitudes have too many echoes in American society. What distinguishes these particular comments is that they were made by preschool-age children, the former by a five-year-old white, the latter by a four-year-old black. The general public might be amazed to find that statements of this type were made by such young children, yet it is now widely accepted by social scientists that racial attitudes are learned during preschool years.

Contents:

Part One. The Acquisition of Racial Attitudes. Mechanisms of Racial Attitude Transmission. Review of Other Studies

Part Two: Sociological Correlates of Racial Attitude Formation. Methods of Inquiry. Meaning of Doll Choice: An Analysis by Race and Age Effect of Race on Doll Choice. Social Class, Contact, and Shade of Skin Color as Correlates of Racial Attitude Formation

Part Three: The Effects of Racial Attitudes on Personality and Interaction. Racial Self-Concept. The Personal Dimension of Self-Esteem Self-Portrait and Story Technique: A Measure of "Personal Identity". Actual Playmate Choice in a Desegregated Setting

Part Four: Implications of this Data. Implications for Theory Formation and Content of Racial Attitudes. Implications for Research Changes in Black Attitudes and Group Identity. Implications for Public Policy.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's doctoral dissertation in sociology for Harvard University.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-273) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy is "Second Printing, 1973".

Banks Collection copy is paperback edition.

ISBN:

0674076109

0674076117

OCLC:

138551