
Looking at the promo material on the site I kept seeing cartoons of a black girl and an asian girl, and wondering where the dolls for them were.American Girl is just as bad for stereotypes. Their skin tones are at least unabashed, though non-white American Girl dolls are a tiny fraction of the line.

Then I realised that the two slightly-less-white dolls on the left of the group photo were them. (Maybe they’re really, really badly lit and photoshopped and are more realistically pigmented in actuality.)

To top it off, the racist stereotyping is sad: the “asian” girl plays violin; the “black” girl is rough and physical; the two white girls are assigned the “I like animals!” and “I like the beach!” girly stereotypes, aligning feminine norms with whiteness.