Self Concepts and Racial Attitudes of Northern and Southern Black Preschool Children / Harriette Pipes McAdoo.

This study attempts to view some of the historical and social factors that may affect the development of self concepts and racial attitudes of black children in a Northern and Southern environment, and to examine the differential effect of growing up in a female-headed household on the relationship between the self concept and racial attitudes of black preschool children. Comparisons were made between the demographic groups and between children who have grown up in a nuclear or mother-headed household. The Northern sample was located in a working class, urban center outside the Detroit. All were attending a year long child development project under Head Start. The staff and children were about evenly mixed black and white. The Southern sample was located in a working class, rural area in Bolivar County in the Mississippi Delta area, where there is little contact with whites. The children were enrolled in two Head Start Centers in Mound Bayou, Mississippi. The subjects were 63 black children in Michigan and 58 in Mississippi. Four sets of materials were used: Peabody Pictures Vocabulary Test, Williams and Roberson Pre-school Racial Attitude Sex-Role Attitude Picture Series, Thomas Self Concept Values Test, and Racial Identification procedures. (Author/JM)

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