Shades of Meaning: Skin Tone, Racial Attitudes, and Constructive Memory in African American Children

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 363-388

  Averhart, Cara J ^a   Bigler, Rebecca S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EGO; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; SKIN PIGMENTATION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 0031300821     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.1997.2413     Document Type: Article

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