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Debbie do you think that some stores refused to sell black barbies?
ReplyDeleteIn the current market, I doubt it. In the past few decades, particularly in Southern US States, black dolls were often not on store shelves.
DeleteIt is just that in the beginning some conservative stores believed that the Bratz dolls were too risky to sell because of their diversity only wanting to purchase the white doll to sell in their stores so i was thinking did the black Barbies and Christie suffered the same?
DeleteI never experienced any stores in my area that refused to stock Bratz dolls because they promoted diversity. The only complaint I've ever heard about Bratz was their appearance being raunchy (clothing and makeup that sexualized the dolls). All the major toy stores carried Bratz dolls.
DeleteIn the 1960s, stores in southern states in the US might have refused to stock Christie, but I doubt that was the case in other regions of the US where attitudes were more relaxed. I know adult collectors who live in non-southern states who owned the original Christie dolls as a child and some of these people only owned black dolls as children.
By 1980 when the 1st Black Barbie was released times were different, attitudes were more relaxed in the south with stores focusing on the color of money rather than complexion of a doll. White dolls have always been manufactured in larger quantities than black dolls and other dolls of color and more dollars spent marketing them. Lack of production and marketing more than stores refusing to stock black dolls remain greater issues.