Cross Racial Identification

Factual Questions
1

I know that Cecil has already posted the straight dope about cross-racial identification (twice!), but this specific issue didn’t come up:

If a black child is adopted by white parents, and raised in a predominantly white environment, will she have a ‘white’ level of difficulty distinguishing black faces? A ‘black’ level? Somehwere in between? How about the other way around?

I assume that someone somewhere must have done a study of this, but darned if I know where to look :stuck_out_tongue:

2

Given the relative rarity of black babies adopted by white parents, I doubt that there is any such study. My guess would be that the child would have the same relative difficulty as any other child raised in a similar environment (from some to none).

A group in which this type of study might have been done would be with regards to East Asian kids adopted into white North American families.