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In the 1600s, brought to America and stripped of their African heritage, Black Americans began their struggle with hue. Still, blacks and whites, remain torn on the issue of skin color.
In the 1950s, during the historical court case, Brown vs. Board of Education, the Supreme Court witnessed Dr. Kenneth Clark conducting a doll test with black children. In his doll tests, Kenneth asked the children to chose between a black doll and a white doll. The majority of the children preferred the white doll. Proving psychological damage, due to slavery,racism and separatism, U.S. schools were ordered desegregated.
In 2007, The Black Doll Affair Movement to remind black women and children of the beauty in hue, began turning its wheels when Dana Hill,saw Kiri Davis on the Oprah Show. Discussing her documentary [above],"A Girl Like Me," Kiri's award winning 7 minute video re-conducted the doll test, proving that since Kenneth's test, black children / people,still struggle with hue they are and prefer lighter, whiter, skin tones. Year after year, with the doll test model as its basis, media outlets continue to test for changes on how we feel about hue. From ABC's 2009 doll test to CNN's 2010 doll test analysis, we're learning what we already knew, there's not much love for the black hue. Until now.
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