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self-esteem and delinquency  

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  • Kiri Davis was 16 in 2005 when she reproduced a famous “doll test” in her amateur documentary, A Girl Like Me. Her documentary showed that 15 out of 21 Black children (71%) preferred to play with a White doll, commonly identifying the Black doll as the “bad” doll and the White one as the “nice” or “good” doll. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race and Crime; Self-Esteem and Delinquency]

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