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Peer reviewedHirschfeld, Lawrence A. – Child Development, 1995
Four experiments explored adults' and grade school children's beliefs about inheritability of racial identity. Found that older children and adults believed that mixed-race children possessed black racial features. Also found that children from an integrated school, regardless of race, expected mixed-race children to have intermediate racial…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Biological Influences, Blacks


