They are very proprietary of thebutt, as it gives black women (and Latinas) a body image that is theirs andallows them to exist outside the confines of white beauty ideals. By nowincluding it in mainstream white beauty discourses, U.S. white beauty sys-tems co-opt and neutralize the resistive potential of the derriere for blackwomen.
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