The doll test is a psychological experiment designed in the 1940’s in the US to test the degree or marginalization felt by African American children caused by prejudice, discrimination and racial segregation.
Kenneth and Mamie Clark’s doll experiments grew out of Mamie Clark’s master’s degree thesis on children’t self perception related to race between 1939 and 1940.
This test was used in the 1954 Supreme Court Case, Brown vs. The Board of Education that desegregated American schools.
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