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 ...

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It was a simple test. You give a child two dolls, one white, one brown, and ask the child which one he or she likes best. Which one do they want to play with? Which one is the "nice" doll? Which one ...

This month, Kmart began selling up to four dozen new ethnic dolls in its stores. Coincidentally, this is the year that Brown v. Board of Education was effectively overturned by the Supreme Court. A ...