NYU Gets $40k Federal Grant to Study Why Children “Favor Whiteness”

The Department of
Health and Human Services
awarded
New York

University
a $40,000
grant
to study why children believe “that white males are the default person.”

The grant was awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, an office within the National Institutes of Health, and
allocated $40,391
to the university for a three-year study that began in February.

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“This project will uncover the developmental processes by which children acquire the belief that white males represent the default person—a pattern rooted in the ideologies of androcentrism (centering the experiences of men) and ethnocentrism (centering the experiences of white people) prevalent in the United States,” the description of the project says.

It continues: “Despite national rises in racial and gender diversity, white men remain vastly overrepresented across a host of domains within the U.S., from media, to politics, to clinical research. Such overrepresentation poses severe costs to the rest of society—women of all races, men of color, and gender-nonconforming individuals—particularly within the domain of health, where clinical trials have historically prioritized the experiences, perspectives, and health outcomes of white men. To address this issue, we must understand when and how the tendency to view white males as default people develops across childhood, as well as the environmental factors that underlie this phenomenon.”

The study will seek to understand how “children’s default representations of people begin to favor whiteness and maleness over other identities,” according to the description.

NIH explained the grant was awarded as part of a program that enables “promising predoctoral students to obtain mentored research” for their doctoral dissertation plans.

“The purpose of the training grant is to help postdoctoral students gain the research skills needed to eventually become independent researchers,” NIH told
Fox News Digital
in a statement.

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In this particular study, the NIH said NYU’s “research will address the developmental trajectory of children’s beliefs that often tend to select whiteness and maleness over other identities when thinking of who represents a typical person.”

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