Taswegian1957

Fashion Doll Friday – 40th Anniversary African American Barbie & Ken 1999 and 2001


The African American version of 40th Anniversary Barbie and Ken.
African American 40th Anniversary Ken. 2001
African American 40th Anniversary Barbie

Todays dolls are the African American 40th Anniversary Barbie and Ken. I was lucky to get these dolls as they were never on sale in Australia. I bought them from a doll collector in the USA. She was selling them to finance a vet bill and I was happy both to help out and to get these really attractive dolls.

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I was born in England in 1957 and lived there until our family came to Australia in 1966. I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where I met and married my husband, David. We came together over a mutual love of trains. Both of us worked for the railways for many years, his job was with Australian National Railways, while I spent 12 years working for the STA, later TransAdelaide the Adelaide city transit system. After leaving that job I worked in hospitality until 2008. We moved to Tasmania in 2002 to live in the beautiful Huon Valley. In 2015 David became ill and passed away in October of that year. I currently co-write two blogs on WordPress.com with my sister Naomi. Our doll blog "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls", and "Our Other Blog" which is about everything else but with a focus on photographs and places in Tasmania. In November 2019 I began a new life in the house that Naomi and I intend to make our retirement home at Sisters Beach in Tasmania's northwest. Currently we have five pets between us. Naomi's two dogs Toby and Teddy and cats, Tigerwoods and Panther and my cat Polly. My dog Cindy passed away aged 16 in April 2022.

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  4. So, revisiting this doll as I was looking at mine for Black history month, and thinking about diversity in dolls.As I was also repacking/binning Disney dolls, I was so glad to see there was so much more diversity in them as was available for me as a kid. Today on a blog “Planet of the dolls” was something about how how kids reacted to different color dolls many years ago in a study.It was very thought provoking. .

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    • I will take a look if I get the chance. There were no fashion dolls of colour when I was a child but I did have other black dolls that I was fond of. I can’t recall that I thought a lot about why they were different from me. I was more annoyed that most dolls had blue eyes while I have brown eyes so mum got me a brown eyed doll.

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