![]() ![]() This is Flashback Friday, so these are ads I collected and posted in 2008. The images are powerful because the black models look almost identical to the white models, but also because they are ads for make-up. ![]() This collection of images is a nice illustration of the way in which black women, in particular, are expected to look white in order to qualify as beautiful. Non-white people are still allowed to be considered beautiful, of course, as long as they look like white people. When whiteness is considered superior, white people are considered more attractive by definition and, insofar as the appearance of people of other races deviates from that standard, they are considered ugly. One manifestation of white supremacy is the use of whiteness as the standard of beauty. ![]()
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