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This article though eye-opening was not incredibly surprising. It is sad to see that though blacks were being accepted in some aspects of life and society, they process of "fitting in" or perhaps aesthetic assimilation is something that will never come to fruition.--MDvorak | This article though eye-opening was not incredibly surprising. It is sad to see that though blacks were being accepted in some aspects of life and society, they process of "fitting in" or perhaps aesthetic assimilation is something that will never come to fruition.--MDvorak | ||
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| + | Taylor and Anna thanks for the links! The Beyonce one is really creepy--even the amount of touching up they do to so-called "perfect" women's photos is enough to set me off, but she's really a totally different shade! And I would have assumed that Sylvia Fitt was Caucasian, except that the picture is in Jet! I knew to some extent that darker-skinned models and those with what are considered "African" features (as opposed to "European," I assume) were discriminated against in the modeling industry, and this article definitely reinforced that, but the racial ambiguity of these "Brownskin" models is really something else. I also was very intrigued by the description of the "What Happened to the Brandford Models?" article, and how these models were presented as not only body or beauty ideals, but also as models of femininity and motherhood and all that "cult of domesticity" business. --Sarah Smethurst | ||
== "We Marched for Our Rights," Rev. Naomi Craig == | == "We Marched for Our Rights," Rev. Naomi Craig == | ||
