"In a series of portraits, Fabrice Monteiro revisits a famous psychological investigation from the 1940s on the ways in which racism affects self-perception from a perturbingly young age." The results were unequivocal, and perhaps unsurprising still today although no less disturbing: when asked which doll was the ‘nice’ and ‘pretty’ one, they overwhelmingly picked the white one. The groundbreaking study played a pivotal part in the landmark civil rights case, Brown vs Board of Education, which led to state-sponsored educational segregation in the US being overturned.