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[sylvar]

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This video, "A Girl Like Me", is probably only news to white people. But I wish everyone would watch it (it's a little over 7 minutes).

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[sylvar.livejournal.com]

OK, it's about an experiment performed as part of the Brown v. Board of Education case in which young black children were asked to choose between a black doll and a white doll, and asked "Which doll is nice?" "Which doll is bad?" "Why?" "Which one looks like you?"

The filmmaker re-ran the experiment and also talked to her peers (around 17 years old) about blackness, identity, and beauty.