Description

Co-hosts LaRen and Akanksha introduce Black Feminist theorists, internalized racism, colorism, and and invite reflection and action at the intersection of gendered racism and childhood development.

See below for more information on topics discussed in today's episode: 

Key Terms: 

• Black Feminism: a movement that focuses on Black women's interconnected experiences of racism, sexism, and classism which causes their experiences, needs, and worldviews to be different from Black men and White women - from: The National Museum of African American History, "The Revolutionary Practice of Black Feminism" 
• Intersectionality: the way in which multiple forms of inequality or oppression (such as racism, sexism, classism, ableism, heterosexism and more) can intersect and create unique different modes of discrimination or disadvantage
• Colorism: a skin tone stratification system privileging lighter-skinned people of color with more proximity to European features over their darker-skinned people

Research

• Sojourner Truth Project - The Truth of the Famous 'Ain't a Woman' Speech
  - https://www.thesojournertruthproject.com/the-readings

• Doll Experiment - Maime and Kenneth Clark
  - Smithsonian Magazine: How a Psychologist's Work on Race Identity Helped Overturn School Segregation in 1950s America
  - The Gorden Parks Foundation - Doll Test, 1947

• Colorism and Betrayal Trauma
  - Gina Sissoko, Ph.D.
  - Jennifer M. Gómez, Ph.D. 

News/Media

• CBS segment on 'MGA Only Sell Bratz as a Four Pack' – CBS Mornings Interview
• MGA vs. Mattel – "You Don't Own Me" movie
• Black Barbie | Netflix

Toys

• Healthy Roots Doll

We gratefully acknowledge, Kevin MacLeod's (incompetech.com) music, "Basic Implosion" featured in our intro!

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