Soon after Barbie was first introduced in 1959 ... “That was a little act of revolution,” Dr. Patricia Turner, an African American studies professor and dean of UCLA College, said in the ...
Barbie eventually blossomed in diversity, too, with the first African American Barbie announced in 1967 and the first ...
In 1967, Mattel introduced the first African American Barbie, but the moulds were the same as the original white dolls. In 1997, Mattel released a black Barbie in partnership with Oreo (she held ...