Many people were touched by a recent viral story on social media about a white girl who defended her choice of a black doll when a cashier told her the doll didn’t look like her. "Yes, she does. She's ...
Back in the 1940s, Kenneth and Mamie Clark – a husband-and-wife team of psychology researchers – used dolls to investigate how young Black children viewed their racial identities. They found that ...
Meghan Walbert is Lifehacker's Managing Editor. She has a degree in journalism and has worked at Lifehacker as a writer and editor since 2018, covering parenting, foster care, online child safety, and ...
Ibram X. Kendi worries daughter breathing in ‘smog of White superiority’ for playing with White doll
Author and prominent critical race theory advocate Ibram X. Kendi wrote an extensive essay on his daughter’s attachment to a White doll in a Tuesday piece published in "The Atlantic." Kendi, a ...
Black WaPo columnist writes about 'anxiety' over his daughter's White doll, trying to 'disappear' it
Washington Post columnist Damon Young was the latest media figure to show concern for the racial makeup of his daughter’s toys. On Monday, Young penned a perspective piece for the publication’s ...
FLORENCE, Ky. — No matter where you live, racial inequities have been the center of conversations in our country. That's why when a mother found a nationwide store selling dolls of different races at ...
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