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by K. Danielle Edwards onDecember 17, 2008
For my two young daughters, I'm on the search for authentic black dolls this Christmas. And not just any black dolls, but ones that look like real black girls and women. They, too, are beautiful enough to be center stage even amid an aesthetic that normalizes straight-haired, milky-skinned whiteness as the default and ideal.
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