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149 "Barbie Goes to Brazil," in Barbie, Winter 1988.
149 "We couldn't show Barbie's family . . .": Interview with Karen Tina Harrison, New York City, February 23, 1993. (All Harrison quotations are from this interview.)
150 "I take my daughter to marches": Interview with Katy Dobbs, New York City, November 20, 1992. (All Dobbs quotations are from this interview.)
152 "the largest drug combination . . .": "When TV Kids Go Down the Tubes: Eight Stories You Won't See on Sitcoms," People, March 25, 1991. p. 38.
154 "I can remember sitting in meetings . . .": Interview with Barbara Charlehois, Los Angeles, May 2, 1993. (All Charlebois quotations are from this interview.)
155 "We Girls Can Do Anything," Barbie Fashion, June 1991.
155 "Aunt Rose Comes First," Barbie Fashion, June 1993.
155 'The Volunteers," Barbie Fashion, February 1993.
156 "I can have Ken being a feminist . . .": Interview with Barbara Slate, Sag Harbor, New York, July 1, 1993. (All Slate quotations are from this interview.)
158 They formed "a cluster of images . . .": Neal Gabler, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (New York: Anchor Books, 1989) p. 7.
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161 "Our inner cities burned . . .": "It's a Wonderful Life: Thirty Years of Barbie and America," Barbie Thirtieth Anniversary Magazine, Winter 1990, p. 11.
162 "For six years, I had been preaching . . .": Interview with Yla Eason, New York City, January 22, 1993. (AH Eason quotations are from this interview.)
163 "I'm not sure I'd go so far . . .": Interview with Ann duCille, New Haven, October 1, 1993. (All duCille quotations are from this interview.)
163 "Having been a little girl who grew up without the images . . .": Telephone interview with Lisa Jones, March 9, 1993. (See also Lisa Jones, "A Doll Is Born," The Village Voice. March 26, 1991 p. 36.)
164 Reclining Chinaman, Chicken Snatcher, other shameful historic toys: See Jo Ann Webb, Smithsonian News Service, "American Toy Makers Respond to the Call for Positive Ethnic Products," Los Angeles Times, August 16, 1992.
165 Details of Watts riots: See Paul Jacobs, Prelude to Riot: A View of Urban America from the Bottom (New-York: Vintage Books, 1968), p. 30.
165 Jacobs "ought to be investigated" for having written it. Ibid., p. 16.
166 "To buy a house in the Valley . . .": Ibid., p. 102.
166 "I think what Lou and Robert . . .": Interview with Marva Smith, Los Angeles, February 1993. (All Marva Smith quotations are from this interview.)
167 "I know you don't agree . . .": Letter from Paul Jacobs to Ruth and Elliot Handler. (Paul Jacobs papers, Mugar Library, Boston University.)
168 "You'd sew it into the doll's head . . .": Telephone interview with James Edwards, January 15, 1994; interview, Los Angeles, February 22, 1994. (All Edwards quotations are from these interviews.)
168 All quotations from the 1977 Shindana Catalogue (Los Angeles: Shindana Toys, 1977).
168 "Black people were suspicious . . .": Cliff Jacobs memo. (Paul Jacobs papers, Mugar Library, Boston University.)
169 "Art was the kind of person . . .": Telephone interview with Robert Bobo, January 14, 1994. (All Bobo quotations are from this interview.)
170 "I can't even begin . . ." Telephone interview with Ralph Riggins, January 16, 1994.
170 Manipulation: The Mammoth Corporation Game, Shindana 1980 Catalogue (Los Angeles: Shindana Toys. 1980).
171 "Well, you know, they didn't have . . .": Interviews with Cliff Jacobs, Los Angeles, July 17, 1992, and April 27, 1993. (All Jacobs quotations are from these interviews.)
171 Shani story: Interview with Roger Wilkins, Washington, D.C, December 31, 1992.
172 "It was so disheartening": Interview with Darlene Powell Hopson, Middletown, Connecticut, April 22, 1993. (Unless otherwise indicated in the text, all Darlene Powell Hopson quotations are from this interview.)
172 "despair around the world": Derek Hopson and Darlene Powell Hopson, Different and Wonderful: Raising Black Children in a Race-Conscious Society (New York: Prentice-Hall