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Racial Preferences Expressed for Peers and Adults by Preschool Children

College of Home Economics, University of Delaware, Newark 19711

Twenty-four black and 24 white 4- to 5-year-old children in four child care centers were questioned with a semistructured, doll-play interview about theirskin color preferences for peer and adult dolls. The white children chose white dolls significantly more often than black dolls on every question. Black children preferred b lack peer dolls, but showed no sig nificant difference in their choice of black or white adult dolis. The results were discussed in terms of the increasingly favorable perceptions shown by black children for others of like skin color and the implications for selection of adult role-models.

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 5, No. 3, 142-145 (1977)
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X7700500301


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