Thursday, May 19, 2011
The Race Game...
In the video that we watched, A Girl Like Me, I was really shocked when they did an experiment with young black girls and how they are socially constructed about race. Race has changed dramatically throughout the years accepting other cultures and traditions and just accepting people for who they really are. In the experiment when they placed 2 dolls of different races, one black and one white on the table in front of the girl and asked which doll do you play with, almost everyone chose the white doll. When asked who is thud nice one and who is the mean one almost everyone chose the white doll as nice and the black one as mean. The world and people have socially constructed race all different types of ways making us believe different things and not just think what we want to believe. What even threw mw for another loop was when one of the interviewees stated that her aunt and started her daughter into lying in a bath full of bleach to change their race. The way that we think about race is going to keep changing wether we like it or not.
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I think it's awful how from such a young age children are taught that being white is good and being black is bad. Young African American girls have such a hard time accepting themselves and it's a shame!
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