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- Title
RACIAL RECOGNITION BY NURSERY SCHOOL CHILDREN IN LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA.
- Authors
Morland, J. Kenneth
- Abstract
The study deals with the relationship of age, sex, race and family status to the ability of nursery school children to recognize Negroes and whites. It is an analysis of a part of the data from research on race awareness conducted in the racially segregated city of Lynchburg, Virginia. Other parts of the research, not included in this presentation, attempt to measure racial preference, willingness to associate with members of another race and racial self-identification. The assumption was tested by studying children attending six nursery schools in Lynchburg. One of the nurseries was Negro and the other five were white. Three of the white nursery schools were classified as "upper status" schools and two as "lower status," using place of residence and occupation of parents as criteria for classification. Testing was done by the author with the help of white students from Randolph-Macon Woman's College and Negro students from Virginia Seminary and College, during 1955, 1956, and 1957. The measuring instrument consisted of a set of eight pictures, in black and white, about which questions were asked.
- Subjects
LYNCHBURG (Va.); VIRGINIA; UNITED States; RACE; AGE; HUMAN sexuality; AFRICAN Americans; WHITE people; PRESCHOOLS
- Publication
Social Forces, 1958, Vol 37, Issue 2, p132
- ISSN
0037-7732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2572795