Health, beauty, and skin-lightening: Identity politics and Black business in modern Britain c.1940s-1990s
Globally and historically, Eurocentric beauty ideals have been steeped in privilege informed by imperial histories and racial hierarchies. Reinforced by the global beauty industry, circumscribed notions of beauty are pervasively implicated within racist capitalist and patriarchal frameworks. The prominent study of the identity politics of hair and skin colour/shade in the United States has often overshadowed experiences elsewhere.
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