Another way toys show racial profiling is by not creating the real face features an African American or Latino person have on the dolls. According to Karen Sternheimer “these dolls at best look like white people with deep tans. Of those slightly darker, they often have Caucasian-like hair and even blue eyes.” In other words, dolls of color tend to have white doll features. Which brings up the question why create a full on replica of a white girl on a doll but not of a Latina? That I don’t know, but what I do know is that when I saw the Maria doll I never noticed the face features it had until I read the article, it made me realize that Maria did look like a white doll. In the other hand, creating a doll with dark skin, long black hair and name
