How I Annotated "Can We Talk?"

(3.) Some examples will highlight the process. Several years ago one of my students conducted a research project investigating preschoolers’ conceptions of[4] Native Americans. Using children at a local day care center as her participants, she asked these three- and four-year-old to draw a picture of a Native American. Most children were stumped by her request. They didn’t know what a Native American was. But when she rephrased the question and asked them to draw a picture of an Indian, they readily complied. Almost every picture included one central feature: feathers. In fact, many of them also included a weapon—a knife or tomahawk—and depicted the person in violent or aggressive terms.

Most of these ideas are true. Children these days are very stereotypical. I annotated " They didn't know what a Native American was." I thought that this was important because the kids are so use to their own group they are use to or don't know anything else from the outside world. The kids were only exposed to the races of their local area. Another important annotation that I noticed was that the kids drew the pictures of Indians very aggressively. So basically they drew a stereotypical Indian with feathers and knives. I thought that this was very important because just like the first annotation this mean a lot like the same.