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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