Stereotypes

Stereotypes
Stereotypes the Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader“In an effort to determine their racial preferences, we asked the children the following four questions:
1." Give me the doll that you like to play with"
2." Give me the doll that is the nice doll"
3." Give me the doll that looks bad"
4." Give me the doll that is a nice color
"The majority of these negro children at each age indicated an unmistakable preference for the white doll and a rejection of the brown doll" (79-80)

Being in a situation where I was stereotyped and seen as a criminal simply because I was black connected me to this experiment in the book "The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader." One white and one black, these children were asked a series of questions one of which pertained to which doll did they thought was good and which doll they thought was bad. They asked these questions to black children and it seemed as though the black children for the most part identified the black doll as bad and the white doll as good. Why is this, especially when it is not identified easily in our society among young children? The only explanation that seems fit would be that seen from a psychological stand point.I feel that the store keeper felt the same way; psychologically he had a mindset where African Americans were identified as being thieves which is why he acted in such a repulsive manner towards me. It was psychological, in a way embedded into his mind so deep that he had to act the way he did.