really changing anything?
In my opinion, the answer is no.
The point of the experiment was to show that segregation and the racist society around those children was having a negative effect on them mentally. Even though up until recently there has been a lack of diversity in the skin color of toys & children’s characters, the toys were never the main culprit of the problem.
I have only purchased my 3-year-old black dolls with curly hair, many of them have the same skin tone and hair color/texture as her, which hasn’t gone unnoticed. She has said to me, “she looks like me!”. Confidant that because of my choices, she would only want to play with brown, curly-haired dolls, I decided to perform a doll test of my own.
I took her to Walmart and gave her options to choose from. I showed her a white & black doll and asked her “which one do you want?”, “Which one is bad?”, and “Which one is good?”.
The results of my little test were inconclusive as far as I can tell. Many of the times she chose the white doll but not all. As far as good vs. bad, she mainly chose whichever doll was in my right hand as good and the