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Malaika
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#1960s black doll#Black doll history#ethnically-correct doll#Operation Bootstrap#Shindana#Shindana Dolls
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some neat dolls i saw the last time i went antiquing!
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Hongera sana Rashid 🙌🏾 Jisajili albastini.com kushinda Tsh. 50,000/= kila Jumamosi ♣️❤♠️♦️ Jinsi ya kujisajili na Albastini 1. Ingia Albastini.com 2. Jaza taarifa zifuatazo kwenye form - Jina lako - Anuani ya barua pepe (e-mail) - Chagua bendera ya Tanzania - Andika namba yako ya simu ukianzia na namba ya mtandao wa simu unaotumia (Mfano 713 – xxx xxx) - Mkoa unapoishi - Jina unalotumia Instagram 3. Bonyeza box linalosema I agee to the Giveaway Official Rules 4. Bonyeza Jiasili 5. Hongera!! Umefanikiwa kujisajili na Albastini #shindanaushinde #shindana #mtwara #Tanzania #shindano #albastiniwinner (at Mtwara, Tanzania) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch1ZbCpumK6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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The Super Soul Agent!: Slade Super Agent action figure by Shindana Toys, 1975. One bodacious toy.
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Talk about the diversity of Barbie must include Shindana Toys starting in 1968 and their Wanda doll. Instead of just making the occasional black member of the Barbie family, Mattel helped a company with an African American woman designer make an assortment of toys.
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some well loved thrift finds today.
Spectra's been rebodied and is missing a good chunk of her paint, but I think I can salvage her.
I don't usually go for baby dolls, but she's cute and I guess her distressed state tugged at my heart. Someone loved her a whole lot once, enough to repair her multiple times.
the back of her neck says she was made by Shindana in 1969. I have never heard of them, but google tells me they specialized in making dolls of color in the 70's. So that's cool.
I could just make her a new body, but I don't want to erase her history, so I'm just gonna clean her, patch as best I can, fill in her missing hair, and find her a cute outfit.
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HI DOLL PEOPLE
MY INQUISITIVE ASS IS BACK AGAIN!!!!
Anybody who has any extra information about these dolls that may not be quickly available (including information about sculpts, images of said dolls' bodies and variants, commercials and print ads, manufacturing information, ect, I'm literally asking for ANYTHING) Please contact me! This is a long long LONG list and I plan on making videos covering ALL OF IT. Also please tell me if there's any dolls you think should also be here.
List below the cut (for good reason, it's very large)
Barbie-like doll video topics
Topics:
Bild Lilli(?)
Barbie
Tressy
Tammy
Sindy/Licca Chan/Chabel
Dusty
Wanda (shindana toys)
Tuesday Taylor
Darcy (transitions into Jem)
Jem
Maxie
Totsy
Tanya (creata)
Naomi/Elisse/Imani (its the same doll, it was just renamed three times lmfao)
Mimi
Jouju
Happy to be me/Maxie
Jet setters
Steffi Love (I hate the Bianca rebranding)
Janay
Jakks Pacific Rachel
Tanya (giochi preziosi)
Razanne
Fulla
Saghira
Catalina/Damita
everGIRL
I-Girl
GIRL force
Get Real Girls
Queens of Africa
Kurhn
Yue-Sai Wa Wa
Prettie Girls
Malaville dolls
Defa Lucy
Kiyaa
God's Girls
Apne (presumably unreleased)
Lammily/Happy to be me
Ebony/Kenya
Nicole dolls
Fresh dolls
Naturalistas/Dream Ella
Honorable Mentions:
Bonnie Pink dolls
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Saw your addition on that post about colorism, after I added the original Orange Blossom doll. Weirdly it seems like the 70s-90s were - in some ways - better about having darker-skinned black dolls? (I did a paper on the history of Dolls of Color in college.) It's always been kind of fraught, but if you're at all interested look up Shindana - which was one of the first companies to try to sell "ethnically-correct" black dolls, and the Happy Family from Mattel's Sunshine Family line in the 70s.
Thats really interesting. i’ll check that out! I find it unfortunate and quite disgusting that a lot of black dolls from before the era you stated looked like caricatures and blackface. I’ve seen several of examples myself, even a few still being sold on sites like eBay! But i have also noticed that a lot of cartoons from 70’s-90’s even are more diverse than today’s cartoons as well. (Even with physically disabled characters, which is something you hardly ever see in modern cartoons. I even remember a cartoon called The Snorks i saw on Boomerang who had a mentally disabled character who was treated with tons of respect, even though he was called ”special” in the show, it was the terminology at the time iirc.) Even though i dont know very much about that era, it still fascinates me to see.
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Why Do I Care About Dolls?
visual aid for my research project application
My interest in dolls began during my first research project as an undergraduate at a predominantly white institution in a small Pennsylvanian town. There, I investigated how African American women worked to reclaim their identities in the face of pervasive stereotypes throughout US history. On the advice of my advisor, I went to a local antique market to see what images of black people existed there and I was incredibly shocked at what I found. Numerous white vendors were profiting from caricatures of black people in many forms. However, the most impactful to me were the dolls. Their charcoal black bodies, wiry hair, and severe red lips were an unbelievable sight in person. It was challenging to contend with these hurtful images and how historically, caricatures have outnumbered positive, accurate portrayals of black people. I purchased a few of these artifacts to hold that day in my memory.
Years later, and across the country in my hometown of Los Angeles, I discovered the annual Doll Show at the William Grant Still Art Center. I learned The "Doll Test" of 1947 is the inspiration for these exhibitions and immediately thought of my first research project. However, it still seemed coincidental that the matter of race and self-esteem would be explored through dolls.
In the neighborhood of Leimert Park, a cultural Mecca for black people in Los Angeles, I began to exhibit my work frequently and collaborate with other artists. In these egalitarian spaces, I was able to exhibit everything from original paintings, to abstract digital art prints, to 3D printed sculpture. There were no artistic restrictions but I was encouraged to determine the relevance of my art to the community I had cultivated there. In Leimert Park, "pride" is a word I hear every day. In turn, I ask myself, "How can I create art that instills pride in the Black community?"
my initial doll concept which I'll discuss more in a future post
This was an enormous question to answer and led me back to my roots in research. I revisited the power of images and their ties to the lived experiences of African Americans within the US. At this point, it was moving for me to learn that the groundbreaking Shindana Toy company was a direct consequence of the African American community of Los Angeles negotiating more power, respect, and self-reliance. Their debut doll, Baby Nancy was born to assert the inherent beauty and worth of blackness. Then and there, I began devoting all my creative energy to the creation of dolls.
My continued exploration introduced me to many efforts of black doll collecting, historical preservation, contemporary doll-makers, and a strong foundation for future research.
The next step of my journey is making dolls, not as mere objects, but as vessels of self-esteem, history, and achievements of technical excellence. As a Black woman artist active in the Los Angeles art scene, I aim to illuminate the legacy of these crafted figurines as agents of self-determination throughout history and in contemporary times.
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$75.0 Only! ~ Good Times JJ Doll 1975 Shindana Toys Vintage Jimmie Walker In the OG Box TV, Antique Comic Character Toys, Vintage Character Toys, E001 BUY HERE!
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Wewe bado ni kijana, Sijui mbona tuna shindana. Sijawai deki kwa jua la bin adam, Nimetoka far sana ka wa choo mchanga. Na bado Nahustle excess kuliko wale. Me ni yule mwanajeshi alicome na ballista kwa vita vya mshale. I'm moving bravely, boy I'm in my grind. They thought I was crazy, now they respect my mind." https://www.instagram.com/p/CjIi5esqZpD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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#black dolls#dolls made by a dream#dolls with a difference#ethnically correct black doll#Louis S. Smith II#Operation Bootstrap#Shindana Dolls
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Marla Gibbs, born Margaret Theresa Bradley in Chicago in 1931, is well known for her role as Florence Johnston in The Jeffersons. In addition to her acting career, she is a singer who has released a number of albums. This Shindana doll was made in 1978.
#Black history month#African-American history#African-American actors#Black actors#Marla Gibbs#The Jeffersons#Shindana
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Hongera sana Adam 🙌🏾 Shindana na ushinde kila Jumamosi ♣️❤♠️♦️ (at Mwanza, Tanzania) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck76nSMupXt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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O.J. Simpson (Shindana Toys)
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Jun 26
Well, that pile of dolls from the estate sale is the gift that keeps on giving-
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The head from the armless body, which wasn't hers to begin with, has great hair and so it goes on the right body (at least a Malibu one) and the baldie from that hits the reroot pile.
She's not an extra Sunshine Family, she's the Living Skipper's friend Living Fluff. Once her hair goes back to its factory settings she's a rare only made once doll in pretty good shape for being loose.
The black clone is the Casey/Twiggy/Malibu Francie mold and there's only one other with that hairstyle on the internet and I suspect the one with strait hair is a reroot. When I find the Shindana Wanda and some other things I am considering making a donation to a black history institution for safe keeping.
Bubble cut clone was wearing what I think is a Francie piece and a tagged Barbie outfit in great shape. Pretty sure her actual swimsuit and that of the Casey clone is in the clothes.
That's a Malibu Ken in good display shape.
On the rerooting end-
A couple of the clones in the bin are okay enough that I'm just going to work on resetting their original style.
My Loving You Barbie is trying to save me some work. I was intending to redo her in a red that matches her outfit, but that red is needed elsewhere, so then I thought to just do a restore but her original hair is alright for now, just a little crispy. The other red I have won't work. So for now she's been put aside and she'll see what's left after some other dolls who need it more.
No, I don't do commissions, thank the one customer who pooped in the pool, I thank all the others who were happy. But Barbie heads are no where near the work Monsters are so if it's like another doll person but no way in hell anyone who thinks $$ to $$$ is too much.
Oh and the Living Barbie body will get an already rerooted Living Barbie head and that one will go in the reroot bin.
She needs bangs, I need doll styling gel, but she's titian again.
And I've decided I want another mod Stacey, third from the left, to reroot. I did that one in white which really suits her. And I am relieved that PJ, far right, came with the "bruise" on her cheek and didn't get it with me. She's the last of that quad to get rerooted and I have a super soft white blonde that someone who ended up with one of my Monsters has nothing but praises for.
Just remind me when I'm wanting to do a clean out of the rerooting supplies the brassy blonde and other cheap shiny colors are perfect for the clones. One of the gals from the haul still has her single row of it.
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