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The Netflix documentary “Black Barbie” examines why the doll, which was created by designer Kitty Black Perkins in 1980, holds a strong cultural significance.
The doll wasn’t greenlit until Perkins was hired as a Barbie designer in 1976. Black Barbie hit the market in 1980, and Perkins explains in the film that the doll was designed to be reminiscent ...
So I got to watch my kids play with my doll, which was fascinating.” Before 1980, it wouldn’t have been possible for Rhimes’ children to have that experience with a Black Barbie.
In 1960 or 1961, she encouraged Mattel founder Ruth Handler to create a Black Barbie doll — an “act of revolution,” UCLA professor Patricia A. Turner says in the documentary. (at the time ...
After Black Perkins stepped down in 2003, McBride-Irby held a major role on the design team, creating a pink ball gown for the historic Black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha doll in 2008, leading the ...
The concept of a Black Barbie doll was first floated at Mattel almost immediately after Barbie herself was created. The company responded in the late 1960s with a handful of Black dolls that were ...