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Placard reads 'You're beautiful for a black girl'

2020, Placard
Placard reads 'You're beautiful for a black girl'
Placard reads 'You're beautiful for a black girl'
Placard reads 'You're beautiful for a black girl'
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Item no
51140
Title
Square cardboard placard with black and red ink text which reads 'You're beautiful for a black girl'.
Description
This placard references the Western and Eurocentric beauty standards society places on women, which does not allow for any diversity of skin tone, body shape, hair or facial features.
Racist attitudes can be pervasive and unconscious bias a very real problem. The exoticism and fetishisation of Black women is one example of such attitudes and bias.
Date
2020
Type
Location
The People's Story