OK, Pantene offers products designed with Black women in mind. But Crest, Always and Tampax?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
UPDATE: <\/strong>In the comments, Brian asked what I mean by “reification.” Thanks for the question, Brian! I mean “treating an abstraction as if it were real.” And, yep, race isn’t real. See racial categories as a historical artifact<\/a> and check out this great website<\/a> by the American Anthropological Association.<\/p>\n As I re-read… the contradiction between the two last paragraphs (black models that look white and there’s no such thing as black and white) is awesomely reflective of the reality of its race and its simultaneous non-reality!<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Toothpaste and tampons designed with your skin color “in mind.” MultiCult Classics says: OK, Pantene offers products designed with Black women in mind. But Crest, Always and Tampax? Also, apparently the black that is beautiful is light-skinned, with supposedly “European” facial features. See also: black models that don’t look black. UPDATE: In the comments, Brian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[257,2089,23703,285,1760],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hygiene","tag-gender-beauty","tag-marketing","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11913,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/11913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/MyBlackIsBeautiful.jpg\")
<\/a>Also, apparently the black that is beautiful is light-skinned, with supposedly “European” facial features. See also: black models that don’t look black<\/a>.<\/p>\n