{"id":46859,"date":"2016-05-04T18:03:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T18:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46859"},"modified":"2016-05-04T18:03:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T18:03:59","slug":"why-does-the-misty-copeland-barbie-doll-look-so-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46859","title":{"rendered":"Why does the Misty Copeland Barbie doll look so \u2026 white?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/arts-and-entertainment\/wp\/2016\/05\/03\/why-does-the-misty-copeland-barbie-doll-look-so-white\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Why does the Misty Copeland Barbie doll look so \u2026 white?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2016-05-03<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SarahLKaufman\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sara L. Kaufman<\/strong><\/a>, Dance Critic<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/arts-and-entertainment\/wp\/2016\/05\/03\/why-does-the-misty-copeland-barbie-doll-look-so-white\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/style-blog\/files\/2016\/05\/mistybarbiealone.jpg&amp;w=1484\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebarbiecollection.com\/shop\/misty-copeland-barbie-doll-dgw41\" target=\"_blank\">Misty Copeland Barbie doll<\/a>. Photographer Dennis Di Laura<br \/>\nStylist Sheryl Fetrick<\/small><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebarbiecollection.com\/shop\/misty-copeland-barbie-doll-dgw41\" target=\"_blank\">Mattel rolled out a Barbie doll<\/a> modeled on ballerina <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mistycopeland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Misty Copeland<\/a>, who broke the color barrier at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Ballet_Theatre\" target=\"_blank\">American Ballet Theatre<\/a> last summer when she was promoted to the top rank of principal dancer, a first for an African American woman.<\/p>\n<p>So why doesn\u2019t the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barbie\" target=\"_blank\">Barbie<\/a> look like her?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/arts-and-entertainment\/wp\/2016\/05\/03\/why-does-the-misty-copeland-barbie-doll-look-so-white\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does the Misty Copeland Barbie doll look so \u2026 white? The Washington Post 2016-05-03 Sara L. Kaufman, Dance Critic The new Misty Copeland Barbie doll. Photographer Dennis Di Laura Stylist Sheryl Fetrick On Monday, Mattel rolled out a Barbie doll modeled on ballerina Misty Copeland, who broke the color barrier at American Ballet Theatre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,20],"tags":[19921,23719,6725,23720,19922,23721,23718,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-46859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-ballet","tag-barbie-doll","tag-dance","tag-mattel","tag-misty-copeland","tag-sara-kaufman","tag-sara-l-kaufman","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46860,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46859\/revisions\/46860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}