Sentence examples for doll test from inspiring English sources

Alarmingly, versions of the Clarks' doll test conducted in the past few years still yield results similar to those of the original experiments.

Clark and his wife, Mamie, who created "the doll test" to study the psychological effects of segregation, were expert witnesses in Briggs v. Elliott, one of the cases rolled into Brown v. Board of Education.

The influence of cultural images on children's identities has been demonstrated in the groundbreaking "doll test" experiments first performed in the 1940s by psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark, whose findings were used as evidence in the 1954 Brown v Board case for desegregating the American school system.

In the doll test, the Clarks presented African American children with four dolls.

Finally, after much discouraging from Don, a man tried the doll test.

We learned about the psychology of segregation and how the "doll test" demonstrated that segregated schools created "a sense inferiority and self-hatred in black children".

Clark's "doll tests" demonstrated the way white supremacist ideology infects black people at miraculously young ages, asking black schoolchildren from segregated and unsegregated schools to pick whether they preferred a white or a black doll.

The Clarks' doll tests were seen as an indictment of white racism, but the notion of "acting white" — fundamentally rooted in a similar tendency to ascribe virtue to whiteness — was nonetheless deployed as a means of pointing toward African-Americans' own self-defeating behavior.

To combat the notion that the evils of segregation were so much hyperbole, Marshall and the other lawyers at the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund called upon the psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark, whose famous "doll tests" had demonstrated that racism was damaging to the minds of black children.

The Black imagination is beyond Kenneth and Mamie Clark's white baby doll tests depicting little black girls always choosing the wrong one, always going for the whitest one: the widest grin possible, the grimmest of choices, the whitest of skin; it is beyond that kind of reproach, that kind of silly song sung on the back of a bus, wheels spinning.

Slip the remaining sock over the doll to test for fit.