ABSTRACT
Unlike Chapter 5, on the parents’ experiences, this chapter is arranged chronologically. The first part reviews studies of young children’s racial identities and attitudes. The next part describes the responses of the children in our study to the projective materials we gave them in 1972, when they were between three and seven years of age. The last part focuses on the children’s responses to the interviews conducted in 1984, which asked about their performance in school and their future educational plans, their friends, their racial identity, their place in the family, their self-esteem, and their expectations about the ties they are likely to have to their families in the future.
