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A vast majority of black children chose the white doll (all the white children also chose the white doll).
At 4'10.5" and 82 lbs., Tara resembles a Vanna White doll.
Their seminal doll experiments asked children to choose between a black and a white doll.
"I didn't want to be pushing her down the street in a stroller with a white doll," Ms. Butler said.
The study found that all the children (regardless of their own race) had a preference for the white doll.
"I once took a picture in 1962 of a very poor black girl in Shelby County, Tennessee, holding a big white doll," said Mr. Davidson, who is white.
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Most students described the white dolls as good and smart and the black dolls as bad and stupid.
The majority, however, preferred the white dolls and attributed positive characteristics to them, while assigning the black dolls negative characteristics.
One pair of black and white dolls used in the experiments are exhibited in the museum as well.
Her father, a television studio lighting director, bought her both black and white dolls, but none of them looked quite like her.
But Mr. Bilal says the lack of success for black comic heroes goes beyond stereotyping and may simply be a function of the same cultural turn that still prompts many minority children to crave white dolls and white images.
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