Adultification bias
Adultification bias is a form of racial prejudice where children of minority groups, such as African American girls, are treated as being more mature than they actually are by a reasonable social standard of development.
As such, African American girls have reported to be treated unfairly such as their true ages were disbelieved when they told authority figures like police officers, and facing consequences in school for misbehaviors while white girls doing the same acts would have their young ages taken into account.[1]
References
- ^ Lockhart, B.P. "A new report shows how racism and bias deny black girls their childhoods". Vox.com. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
External links
- Research Confirms that Black Girls Feel the Sting of Adultification Bias Identified in Earlier Georgetown Law Study, Georgetown University Law Center
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