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Anti-Black bias can persist despite kids’ tendency to favour same-gender peers

Children as young as five can display more positive associations with white children over Black children on measures of unconscious bias and new research from 91ÑÇÉ« finds this can be true even when taking into consideration kids’ tendencies to favour same-gender peers. Taking an own-gender lens does, however, increase positive associations towards Black children, pointing to both the persistence of anti-Black racism, but also its contextual nature.

Research finds children show implicit racial bias from a young age

91ÑÇÉ« U research sheds light on how racial prejudice develops TORONTO, Monday, November 27, 2017 – Do children show implicit racial preferences from an early age? According to new research from 91ÑÇɫ’s Faculty of Health, they do. In three separate studies with over 350 five to twelve-year-old White children, 91ÑÇÉ« researchers found that […]