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African American beauty focuses on the beauty of African Americans, as beauty is viewed differently by various groups. [2] Similar to other cultures, ideals of beauty in African-American communities have varied throughout the years.
For example, light-skinned black women were marketed as "Negroes fit for domestic service" in their masters' homes. [84] In addition to the bag test, the comb test and the door test were also used. [85] The comb test was used to measure the kinkiness of a person's hair. The objective was for the comb to be able to pass through the hair without ...
During the 1990s, Black, urban fashion was becoming a hot commodity through the rise of “hardcore” rap. [7] The music of the inner city black male filled radios and television screens with images of inner city life and their daily struggles. In a society of iconic images, the image of the ghetto fabulous woman started to form.
Women in six U.S. states are now effectively allowed to be topless in public, according to a new ruling by the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.. The decision stems from a multiyear legal battle ...
In her new memoir, "Token Black Girl," author and fashion editor Danielle Prescod shares how growing up in predominately white spaces impacted her identity.
As Meredith D. Clark, an associate professor at Northeastern University working to archive the Black web, explained to the University of Virginia: "Black Twitter doesn't have a gateway, a secret ...
Scholars have argued that ratchet feminism in music, offers black women and girls a space to be seen and depicted within pop culture. "The presence of black female rappers and the urban, working-class, black hairstyles, clothes, expressions, and subject matter of their rhymes provide young black women with a small culturally reflective public ...
Skin color contrast has been identified as a feminine beauty standard observed across multiple cultures. [7] Women tend to have darker eyes and lips than men, especially relative to the rest of their facial features, and this attribute has been associated with female attractiveness and femininity, [7] yet it also decreases male attractiveness according to one study. [8]