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DESCRIPTION:To request access to the full archival video for research purpo
 ses please email archives@bgc.bard.edu.In the mid-twentieth century\, psyc
 hologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark conducted their famous “doll test” in wh
 ich they asked African American children whether they preferred Black or w
 hite dolls. Most children identified white dolls as “nice” and Black dolls
  as “bad”—proof\, the Clarks argued\, that segregation psychologically dam
 aged Black children.  These findings figured pivotally in Brown v. Board o
 f Education. In this lecture\, Robin Bernstein defamiliarizes the “doll te
 st” by locating it not in the history of Civil Rights but instead in a his
 tory of representational play—violently racist practices of play that were
 \, for a century\, coordinated through Black dolls.Robin Bernstein is a cu
 ltural historian who specializes in US racial formation from the nineteent
 h century to the present. A professor at Harvard University\, Bernstein is
  the author of the award winning book\, Racial Innocence: Performing Ameri
 can Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. She has received a Public Scho
 lars Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the Willi
 am Riley Parker Prize for the best article in the journal PMLA (Publicatio
 ns of the Modern Language Association)\, and the Darwin T. Turner Award fo
 r the best article in the journal African American Review. She is currentl
 y completing a book about the origins of industrial prison labor in the an
 tebellum North.Dominique Jean-Louis is Associate Curator of History Exhibi
 tions at New-York Historical Society\, where she has worked on Black Citiz
 enship in the Age of Jim Crow (2018)\, Our Composite Nation: Frederick Dou
 glass' America (2022)\, and is the co-curator of Black Dolls (2022). She r
 eceived her BA in comparative ethnic studies from Columbia University and 
 is completing her doctoral dissertation at NYU on race\, education\, and i
 mmigration in post-civil rights era New York City. Dominique also regularl
 y writes and lectures on black history\, schools and education\, and New Y
 ork City.Freyja Hartzell teaches the history of modern design\, architectu
 re\, and art at Bard Graduate Center. Her first book\, Richard Riemerschmi
 d’s Extraordinary Living Things\, appears with MIT Press this fall. She is
  currently working on a new book\, Doll Parts: Designing Likeness\, and a 
 related exhibition on dolls and human likeness. Her primary research inter
 ests center around the roles that designed objects play in the dynamics of
  subject-object relations.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Resistance\, Not Psychological Damage: Re-Eva
 luating the Clark Doll Tests
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