African American Studies Assignment

Text Book: Emotional Factors in Racial Identification and Preference in Negro Children. Author(s): Kenneth B. Clark and Mamie P. Clark Source: The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 19, No. 3, The Negro Child in the American Social Order (Summer, 1950), pp. 341-350 Published by Journal of Negro Education.

Task

Some or most of you may have heard of the, "The Doll Test". In actuality this is not the official name. The name of the study is the, "Emotional Factors in Racial Identification and Preference in Negro Children" Author(s): Kenneth B. Clark and Mamie P. Clark. You will read and research the original study which is linked, then please answer these research questions.

1. What was the purpose of the Study?

a. What where its aims and precise objectives?

b. What questions is the project intended to answer?

2. What was already known about the issues at the time of the original Study?

a. Where there any gaps in the Study?

b. How did the Study project, contribute to knowledge and understanding of the problem?

c. What was the problem?

3. What design was used in the Study?

a. Was the Study basically a laboratory study, a clinical study or a survey?

b. Was the Study retrospective, cross-sectional, or prospective?

c. Was the Study case-controlled, randomized or quasi-experimental?

4. How were the subjects of the Study chosen?

a. What population did the subjects come from?

5. What data was collected, and why?

6. Is the Study still relevant today in 2018

a. If yes, why?

7. Share your own thoughts and views on what you thought you knew and on what you learned, by doing the research.