Golliwog

Studio 360

Not content with creepy kids, pop culture, from The Twilight Zone to Chucky, has succeeded in making dolls monstrous too. But it doesn’t always take supernatural intervention. The doll called a Golliwog is one of the most enduring racist images in American culture, and it has haunted the artist Damali Ayo for a long time.

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