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Sara Lee: The Rise and Fall of the Ultimate Negro Doll
Author(s) -
Thomas Sabrina Lynette
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
transforming anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.325
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 1548-7466
pISSN - 1051-0559
DOI - 10.1525/tran.2007.15.1.38
Subject(s) - race (biology) , racism , history , art , art history , gender studies , sociology , psychoanalysis , psychology
Much ado has been made about the importance of black dolls as messengers of racial self‐esteem for Black children. This article documents the relationship between and contributions of Eleanor Roosevelt, Sara Lee Creech, and race leaders such as Zora Neale Hurston, Mordecai Johnson, Benjamin Mays, and Ralph Bunche in the development of the first "anthropologically correct" Negro doll—the Sara Lee Doll—during the early 1950s.