Children, Race and racism: How race awareness develops

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Description

This article looks at how children learn about their own racial identity and how and what they learn about others. The article notes, inaccurate, stereotypic and caricatured images and information about racial/cultural groups are particularly harmful, at the stage of development when children are still forming clear concepts of themselves and others.

Table of contents

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Primary author: Derman-Sparks

Secondary author: Tanaka, Carol; Sparks, Bill

Author biography: Māori, Pākehā

Publisher: Bulletin

Publication format: Magazine article

Publication date: 1980

Publication status: Okay to copy

Publication availability: Yes

Publication location: Treaty Resource Centre

Catalog reference: APW-1 – Archives Project Waitangi

Sector: Community, Education – tertiary, Health

Culture related topics: Racism

Historical period: 20th