American Girl’s Addy Is More Than a Slave

ICYMI

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3.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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On today’s episode, Rachelle Hampton is joined by NPR’s Aisha Harris to talk about the return of the discourse about Addy Walker, the first Black American Girl doll. They discuss Aisha’s great piece from 2016, “The Making of an American Girl,” their own histories with the doll, and why this discourse pops up so frequently. This podcast is produced by Daniel Schroeder, Rachelle Hampton, and Daisy Rosario. Subscribe to Slate Plus at http://slate.com/icymiplus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:02.1	I'm Rebecca. I'm Josephine's mom.
0:03.8	I'm Elisa.
0:04.6	Can I go over to Josie's house to play?
0:06.4	She met a new friend and puff.
0:07.9	She's gone.
0:09.0	An ordinary play date.
0:10.5	The missing child is Lucia Blix.
0:12.4	Nine years old.
0:13.4	Is about to become every parent's nightmare.
0:16.3	The people who took Lucia plund it meticulously.
0:19.9	She's hiding something, I know it.
0:21.8	The Stolen Girl, a new original series, streaming April 16 exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:27.5	18 plus subscription required.
0:29.0	Teas and C's Apply.
0:30.2	Addie is truly an American girl.
0:32.8	Her experiences of moving from being an enslaved person to a free person, really help incorporate what the promise of America is.
0:41.3	Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I-CYMI.
0:46.3	In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:50.3	Hello, hello, I-CY-A-M-I-Hive. Yes, I am still refusing to use I-C-Y-I-M-I guys because I don't like
0:58.2	rhyming puns unless it's cockney slang. And even then, it's iffy. It's iffy. I hope all y'all are
1:05.5	doing as well as possible in this, in the most interminable month of the year.
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