America’s obsession with multiracial beauty reveals our ongoing bias against blacknessPosted in Articles, Communications/Media Studies, Media Archive, Social Science, United States on 2016-10-09 23:58Z by Steven |
America’s obsession with multiracial beauty reveals our ongoing bias against blackness
Quartz
2016-10-06
Robert L. Reece, Ph.D. Candidate
Duke University
Last month, rapper Kanye West posted a controversial casting call for his clothing line, Yeezy, mandating “multiracial women only.” Many objected, arguing that West had insulted darker-skinned black women.
But Kanye was only adhering to something fairly common in a society that still operates under a racial hierarchy: the belief that multiracial people are more attractive—what sociologist Jennifer Sims has termed the “biracial beauty stereotype.”…
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