I absolutely agree - identificaion begins real early. I'm very interested
in this area.
See ya soon.
Phyllis
On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Dona Avery wrote:
> You write
> >Hi,
> >I'd appreciate the citation very much.
> >Thanks,
> >Phyllis Rubenfeld
> >
> >On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Dona Avery wrote:
>
> >> There has been a similar experiment using "disabled" dolls and
> >> nondisabled figures, and the results were parallel (I'd have to look up
> >> the cite for that).
>
> Hi Phyllis.
>
> Below is not the cite I was thinking of (it's probably back in the US),
> but I've just today been reading Mason and Reiser's terrific book,
> *Disability Equality in the CLassroom: A Human Rights Issue* (Inner
> London Education Authority, 1990), where on p. 27 Richard Crawford
> writes that when the Save the Children fund in the UK
> "did research into the attitudes of black and white children, "
> they were shocked to find that by the age of three, black
> children were already wanting to be white, and that both groups
> of children valued their white friends more than their black
> friends. This is the phenomenon of ínternalized oppression'--
> seeing that one group of people are valued more highly than
> another, and wanting to become like them. This happens every
> bit as much for disabled children and children with learning
> difficulties. . . ."
>
> Remind me at the SDS conference to look up the cite I first referred to,
> as I'll be nearer my Arizona bookshelf by then!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dona Avery
> U of Bristol/AZ State U.
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> www.public.asu.edu/~donam
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