{"id":36563,"date":"2011-06-03T06:21:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T11:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=36563"},"modified":"2011-11-02T19:33:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T00:33:08","slug":"dark-girls-race-beauty-and-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/06\/03\/dark-girls-race-beauty-and-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dark Girls&#8221;: Race, Beauty, and Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/dark-girls.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36566 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/dark-girls-500x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/dark-girls-500x257.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/dark-girls.jpg 904w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the heels of our <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/05\/31\/race-and-the-problems-with-measuring-beauty-objectively\/\">post about race, ideas of beauty<\/a>, and the controversy about Satoshi Kanazawa&#8217;s blog post at <em>Psychology Today<\/em> claiming Black women are &#8220;objectively&#8221; less attractive than women from other races, Lisa C. sent in the 9-minute trailer for the documentary <em>Dark Girls<\/em>. In it, African American women discuss their own experiences of bias toward dark-skinned women, both in pop culture broadly and from people in their own lives. It&#8217;s a stunning and heart-breaking illustration of the personal costs of beauty standards that define dark skin as inherently and automatically problematic:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/24155797?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/24155797?width=1080\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-0\">Dark Girls: Preview<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/bfrench\">Bradinn French<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of our post about race, ideas of beauty, and the controversy about Satoshi Kanazawa&#8217;s blog post at Psychology Today claiming Black women are &#8220;objectively&#8221; less attractive than women from other races, Lisa C. sent in the 9-minute trailer for the documentary Dark Girls. In it, African American women discuss their own experiences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2089,285,1760],"class_list":["post-36563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-beauty","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36563"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41328,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36563\/revisions\/41328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}