Abstract
This thesis explores the racial self-attitude of Afro-American children. Over the past thirty-five years there have been many studies that have initiated this phenomenon in hopes of bringing a better understanding of what causes a particular self-attitude of the child. This is my focus. I hope to bring another aspect of this phenomenon into play. The way the child perceives himself through the eyes of those significant people in his life, has a great deal to with the development of the child's attitude. My focus is to get a general idea of how the child feels about what the teacher expects from him. Gather a better understanding of what the parent/family is transmitting to the child in respect to racial selfattitude. Understanding how the child feels about being a part of the Afro-American community. This information was obtained from questionnaires given to a randomly selected population of Afro-American 7th graders. The overall results indicated that in 1990, Afro-American do have a positive racial self-attitude and the influence of the significant others does have a great deal to do with the formation of the child's attitude. Further research is suggested, focusing on the effects of the parent/family on the child's development of racial self-attitude.
Advisor
Kershaw, Terry
Department
Sociology and Anthropology
Recommended Citation
Brittain, Michelle A., "The Effects of Significant Others on the Racial Self-Attitude of Afro-American Children" (1990). Senior Independent Study Theses Archive. Paper 177.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudyarchive/177
Publication Date
1990
Degree Granted
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type
Senior Independent Study Thesis
© Copyright 1990 Michelle A. Brittain