@i-need-a-martini wrote:
@imastawka wrote:There are plenty of black/brown dolls out there - like Blythe dolls for instance.
But the objection with golly and mammy dolls is their background
of minstrel blackface and domestic slavery.
I had no knowledge of that when I was four, and I doubt it would have meant
anything to me either.
Perhaps not ima. But think about how the golliwogs/black characters were always potrayed by Enid Blyton - dirty, nasty, thieving, naughty. Whether you recall knowledge or not, the subconcious retains informaion like this.
the brownies were often naughty and badly behaved, ameia jane was a naughty bad mannered doll, binkle and flip were naughty bunnies and often in trouble, the naughtiest gir in school was always playing up....
I doubt that she had any racial motivation when writing her golliwog books, and just for the record the golly in the amelia jane books was always polite and kind if I remember correctly..
