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Contrasts a case study of Mattel's Shani doll with an ethnographic look at race and commodities among New Haven kids in Connecticut to locate children's consumption within the context of social inequality. Entry into race market; Children's perceptions about race, consumption and the question of queer; Negotiation of Newhallville; Whiteness of Barbie; Shani and the marketing of blackness; Braids and the blonde doll.