Black Dolls

NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY

“Black Dolls at the New-York Historical Society offers up a collection of more than 100 Black dolls mostly made between the 1850s and 1940s, examining them through the lens of race, gender and history.”

Aruna D’Souza / The New York Times

SELECTED PRESS

Picturing Black Childhood: An Artist’s Journey. THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Black Dolls Tell a Story of Play—and Resistance—in America. SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE
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Stitch in Time. ARTFORUM
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An inside look at the Black dolls museum exhibit. GOOD MORNING AMERICA
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Installation images by Glenn Castellano

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