Archive for March 22nd, 2010
Race & Normative Beauty
I’ll be giving the ‘race’ lecture this week, so this piece on All Things Considered caught my ear. It is stunning to see the lengths that we humans will go to in order to achieve [or approximate] normative ideals of beauty.
Every culture has its idealized woman — a standard of beauty that is sought and [...]
Posted: March 22nd, 2010 under Popular Culture.
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