How Barbies became a critical piece in the Latino immigrant experience.
In anticipation of the new “Barbie” film release this weekend, bakeries across the country have created a new type of Barbie to consume: a traditional Mexican concha.
Still, how I got my nearly 40 dolls and played with them was unique to my first-generation immigrant experience.. I was 4 years old and my mom had decided I was old enough to be trusted around small plastic toy parts. As I excitedly opened the box, my mom reminded me that the doll had been expensive and that I must take good care of it. I still have that doll 27 years later.We asked readers what Barbie meant to them.
For years, my parents and I would wake up early every Saturday morning and cruise through Dallas’ wealthier neighborhoods — ones with white picket fences and two-story houses, vastly different from the area we lived in — searching for garage and estate sales.I’ve never been a morning person, but the prospect of finding a few dolls at a garage sale was enough motivation to turn me into one temporarily. If we would drive up to a sale and I saw a teenage girl, I knew it would be worth it.
My mom grew up in rural Mexico as the oldest of 10. She only ever had one doll and her childhood was plagued with responsibilities. Meanwhile, I grew up as an only child in one of the biggest cities in Texas. Our vastly different upbringings have made it difficult for us to relate to each other at times, but our Barbie projects offered us a bridge into each other’s lives.
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