Children Identify with Race Rather Than Language (IMAGE)

University of Chicago

Children Identify with Race Rather Than Language

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UChicago researchers showed children images and voices of a child and two adults, and asked, "Which adult will the child grow up to be?" White children chose an English-speaking African-American man rather than a French-speaking white man, showing that their sense of identity was more dependent on language than on race.

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Katherine Kinzler and Jocelyn Dautel

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