Dyes and Dolls: Multicultural Barbie and the Merchandising of Difference Available to Purchase

ann ducilleis associate professor of English and African American Studies at Wesleyan University. She is the author of The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction (New York: Oxford UP, 1993) and is currently working on two other books: “The Black Feminist Reader,” an edited volume of black feminist criticism, and “Inconspicuous Consumption: Labor, Leisure, and the Lady in Black Middle-Class Culture,” in which Barbie figures in the last chapter.