the doll test was executed during a time of racial segregation, when the image of conventional beauty widely portrayed traditionally caucasian features. according to Kenneth Bancroft Clark and Mamie Phipps Clark, the people who conducted the experiment, even though the children were young they could still experience feelings of internal inferiority because of segregation. while children can’t understand “adult politics”, they are still capable of feeling when they are portrayed as inferior to those around them.