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And, while contesting the racist devaluation of all blacks, many middle-class black cultural products reinforced the intraracial pigmentocracy that fa-vored light-complexioned blacks.
Even within groups that takes pride in black identity you still cannot escape colorist ideaologies.
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What they cre-ated was not so much hidden from whites as it was ignored by them
I love how Black people are so innovative and make a way when excluded from services, education. and institutions. They were able to be in control of their own stories and knowledge. I find it interesting that it was ignored by white people. Was this a result of lack of value fo Black consumers? Were the rise of these organizations not seen as a threat?
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Both the separatist and the inte-grationist strategies sought, either directly or indirectly, to regain control oversocial identity, and both, I would argue, met with some success
I find it so interesting how much of this struggle to define the black identity as a collective is still relevant today. From debates about PWIs vs HBCUs, locs vs perms etc... There is always debates about how Black people should live and what it means to be black but sometimes all that does is divide black people.
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Figure 3.3. Program of the 1964 Miss Bronze Norther
I'm starting to think they were calling it Miss Bronze for a reason
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after a Harlem audience rose up in protest
After a protest ;/ why must riot ensue before this contest could deem non lightskin individual as beautiful
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She was de-fined by desire rather than by accomplishment.
While all pageants and beauty contests take accomplishments and valor into account it makes me question what is black beauty based on? And what makes a black woman more valuable than an another? Where do the values of the judges or all people who make these judgements of black people lie?
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dark skin withsex, light skin with goodness; dark skin with shameless sensuality, light withcultivation
Painting lighter skinned individuals as innocent deserving queens and darker skin girls as only winning based on proximity to sex is degrading. It takes me back to earlier in the article when black women were correlated to prostitution.
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“cultured” representatives of the race
This reminds me of the black male gaze once again. Especially in a time where BBLs are very presented in today's mainstream media and everyday life.
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The ad-vertisement, which is for a skin bleaching cream, showed a woman’s face butnot her body.
Of course it's skin bleaching cream. While showing a woman without a face is dehumanizing showing only a face of light complexions is heartbreaking. Being a black woman comes with dealing with so much exclusion. You're accepted as a beautiful contender but your body has to be nice enough to excite a crowd and your face has to be light enough for someone to question your blackness.
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The lead photograph of the story waspeculiarly cropped: The queen had no head
hypersexualization of black women and black bodies. Removing a head from a woman is dehumanizing and insinuates all she has to offer is her body.
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The judges attempted to quiet the audience by split-ting the Miss Fine Brown Frame title from the contest’s $300 prize by offeringthe title to the light-skinned contestant and the cash to Evelyn Sanders
This is even worst in my opinion. She can have the money but she is still unfit/undeserving of the title. Yikes.
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but what about the poor col-ored girl?
The exact same question I had
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, is anearly example of the manipulation of racial identity as a commodity.
Instead of truly providing for these communities they lie to them and target them for economic gain.
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In 1925, the companysponsored the National Golden Brown Beauty Contest, which promoted Negroracial pride and, simultaneously, themselves as a “Negro” business.23 The own-ers of the company masked their identity behind the fictional Madame MamieHightower, whose rags-to-riches biography echoed that of the real black cos-metics entrepreneur, Madam C. J. Walker.
The exploitation of black bodies/identities/representation for monetary gain. Emphasizing the importance of WHO is making it and WHY. Creating an entire fictional black persona is wild but I am not surprised. Even businesses were black fishing in the 1920s.
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“Kodak” camera made it possible for members of themiddle class to capture their own images in photographs
The emphasis of the middle class makes me wonder about what lower class black people's relationships with beauty contests. Were they too expensive to compete in? If they were too expensive were newspapers accessible for them to see the imagery? Did this display of beauty have the same impact on them even though this contest is not as accessible to thm?
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Left to their own impulses, blacks weredestined for savagery. In speeches, newspaper accounts, caricatures printed aspostcards and illustrations, and in fiction, blacks were described as reverting toa state of barbarism.
These were the type of images that black men and women were subjected to just for being freed.
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eauty contests projected ideal images of African American women, idealsshaped by a particularly male-dominated black, middle-class worldview. Mid-dle-class black men, as journalists and community leaders, had a greater rolethan women as spokespersons for the race
Still very unfortunate that the celebration of black women was predominately controlled by what middle class black men considered beautiful. Why is the idea that people of power or people that hold comfortable class position get to be considered "spokespeople" for our race? Do other races have demographics that play vital "spokespeople" roles or is this just mainly common within black communities. I just don't understand how letting one type of people in such a diverse race speak for everyone, when no one is the same. Also who are we speaking to? Because if it's white people then it's on contributing to respectability politics and the racial hierarchy that the Black community wishes to reject.
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black women are beautiful, too.An African American woman who was simply showcased as pretty made an ef-fective counterclaim to caricatures of black women as humorously or mon-strously ugly
I never realized how important portraying Black woman as beautiful through photos could be especially in the 1950s. Both intra-and interracially. Beauty and femininity did not feel as accessible to black women during this time. Having photos of black women in dresses and tiara instead of as slaves or caricatures must have been such significant imagery during this time.
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