The Christie doll is widely considered the first true African American doll in the Barbie line. She was introduced in the midst of the civil rights movement, when critics chided Mattel for failing ...

But Black Barbie wasn’t just a sales success for ... currently, there isn’t any African American doll line that receives its own commercial, that receives its own print ad and support, that ...

Barbie, in 1980. With richly brown skin and a cutely curly coif, the African-American doll not only became the first figurine of color to bear the blond’s buzzy name, but the unsung heroine also ...

Mattel released the African-American Barbie and Ken dolls in 1980. Though there had been an African-American doll in prior collections, the one shown on the right was named as the official African ...

“Getting a Black Barbie was a very important moment in mainstream doll history,” says Crystal Marie Moten, a historian and scholar of 20th-century African American women’s history, and a ...

We had a Mattel African-American Forum at the time, and we had a team of people creating the full story of the So In Style line of dolls." Perkins and McBride-Irby both feel like Barbie has ...

Mattel Although Mattel had introduced the Christie doll as Barbie’s friend in 1968 — and Cara would follow her in the ’70s — this was the first time an African-American bore the name of ...

Turner, who teaches African American Studies at UCLA ... In 2019, the company came out with its first Barbie doll in a wheelchair and another that has a prosthetic leg, thus helping to solidify ...

“Lilli dolls could be bought in tobacco shops ... any social media influencer would envy. But one pic of an African-American ...

Twyman hopes for more people to donate African American Barbie dolls to the university's Black Archives in order to possibly have a Barbie exhibition. The Black Archives Museum is open to the ...

Black Barbie is loosely organized around Davis ... of Mattel and a portrait of the thrill of seeing a Black doll as an African American girl living in the long shadow of Jim Crow, at a time ...

After Mattel‘s culture sweeping debut of Barbie in 1959, it took nearly 17 years for the brand to come out with a version of the collectible doll that represented more than one type of skin color.