Some children have a hard time accepting their own skin color because of society. This is because one major issue that has been affecting American society for years. Eula Biss addresses these issues in her article “Relations”. In her article she gives many different views and perspectives of the glaring issue of race relation in american society. There was a study in 1939 on which skin color doll kids prefer. In this experiment, sixteen black children were shown a white doll and a black doll and asked to pick which doll best represented certain words. Eleven of the black children associated the black doll with the word “bad”. This shows that even black children saw the dark skinned doll as bad too even though it was their own race. Society
