TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goldberg,Rob
TI  - Radical play: revolutionizing children's toys in 1960s and 1970s America 
T2  - Radical perspectives
SN  - 9781478025115
AV  - GV1218.5 .G65 2023
U1  - 790.1/33 23/eng/20230228
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Toys
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Black dolls
KW  - War toys
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Play
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Parenting
KW  - Children
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - HISTORY / Social History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Parenting for peace -- No war toys -- Integrating the doll shelves -- Black Power in toyland -- Equal play -- Feminist toys
N2  - "In Radical Play Rob Goldberg recovers a little-known history of American children's culture in the 1960s and 1970s by showing how dolls, guns, action figures, and other toys galvanized and symbolized new visions of social, racial, and gender justice. From a nationwide movement to oppose the sale of war toys during the Vietnam War to the founding of the company Shindana Toys by Black Power movement activists to the efforts of feminist groups to promote and produce nonsexist and racially diverse toys, Goldberg returns readers to a defining moment in the history of childhood when politics, parenting, and purchasing converged. Goldberg traces not only how movement activists brought their progressive politics to the playroom by enlisting toys in the era's culture wars, but also how the children's culture industry navigated the explosive politics and turmoil of the time in creative and socially conscious ways. Outlining how toys shaped and were shaped by radical visions, Goldberg locates the moment Americans first came to understand the world of toys-from Barbie to G.I. Joe-as much more than child's play"--
ER  -