In the original doll test conducted in the 1940s, psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark placed two baby dolls on a table, one white and one black, and asked children between the ages of three to seven to select the door they preferred. Nearly all of the participants selected the white doll and attributed positive characteristics to it. In 2006, Carrie Davis, a high school student, re conducted the doll test and a short documentary The girl like me, and gotten nearly the same results. This semester, my English 101 class and I decided to recreate a similar doll test using three kinds of Barbie dolls, black, white, and Latina. Each doll was dressed the same so there are only distinctions for skin and hair color. We asked children which doll they liked best, which was prettiest, nicest and which doll was bad these are the results each one of these dolls?

Which door do you think is bad? Okay Okay, more than half of the children said white Barbie was prettiest half of the children said the black Barbie was bad.