Beneath the Surface : A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners /
"BENEATH THE SURFACE explores the use of skin lighteners within South Africa, and across Africa and the diaspora. While skin color has been a marker of difference from the precolonial era to the post-Apartheid, postcolonial present, Lynn Thomas emphasizes the varied ways in which differences in...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2020.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Cosmetic practices and colonial crucibles
- Modern girls and racial respectability
- Local manufacturing and color consciousness
- Beauty queens and consumer capitalism
- Active ingredients and growing criticism
- Black consciousness and biomedical opposition.