Indigenous Thinkers

<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1091431409617440489>

This documentary film (8 minutes) is about an attempt to replicate the famous
Kenneth Clark doll study that was the basis for many of the plaintiff arguments
in the 1954 Brown case. I think you will find it shocking especially since we
feel like we have made so much progress in the past 50 years.

How about some discussion about this, electronic first and then maybe face to
face.

Let me start: since the results of the study are essentially the same as those
of Clark more than 50 years ago, ¿what is to keep someone from saying that
there is just something natural about children preferring the white over the
black doll? In other words, ¿are talking about a socially-constructed racism
here or some sort of natural process encoded in us as human beings? (!)

Another question I had immediately (even more now than about Clark's study):
¿why a choice between just black and white dolls? ¿How about some brown and
red and yellow and other colors? (My sense is that the history of racism in
this country does not turn on the black-white distinction as much as on the
white-nonwhite distinction.)

Let's see if these get us going. /rr/

Richard Ruiz
Department of Language, Reading and Culture and
Department of Teaching and Teacher Education
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
ruizr@email.arizona.edu
520-626-8700, 520-621-7820
520-621-1853 (FAX)

If you haven’t seen the original 8-minute documentary by 17-year old Kiri Davis, this news clip summarizes the film and the continuing impact nation-wide
 
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I found this link to Kiri Davis’ documentary
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1091431409617440489