August 30, 2007

A Girl Like We!

Just to follow up on a story I posted about here in April: 18 year old Kiri Davis' wonderful film "A Girl Like Me" has won the Cosmo Girl "Take Action Hollywood Film Contest! A quick google and I see that she also won the "Diversity Award" in the 6th annual Media Matters film festival.

By the way, the original "Doll Test" referenced in Davis' piece is a huge interest of mine that I hope to blog about at some point. In the meantime, learn more about this pioneering work of Drs. Mamie and Kenneth Clark here:

Library of congress's "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board of Education at 50--http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-brown.html

American Psychological Association's "Psychology Matters" piece--http://www.psychologymatters.org/clark.html

NPR "All Things Considered" on Kenneth Clark shortly after his death in 2005--http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4627755

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Kudos, Kiri!!!

I've been tossing around the idea of writing something related to the doll test for a "mildly progressive" parenting mag I occasionally write for. Thanks for the links!

Posted by: Deesha at September 1, 2007 11:12 AM
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