Lynn M. Thomas constructs a transnational history of skin lighteners in South Africa and beyond, theorizing skin and skin color as a site for antiracist struggle and lighteners as a technology of visibility that both challenges and entrenches racial and gender hierarchies.
Lynn M. Thomas constructs a transnational history of skin lighteners in South Africa and beyond, theorizing skin and skin color as a site for antiracist struggle and lighteners as a technology of visibility that both challenges and entrenches racial and gender hierarchies.
Lynn M. Thomas is Professor of History at the University of Washington; coeditor of The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization, also published by Duke University Press; and author of Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya.
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Acknowledgments ix A Layered History 1 1. Cosmetic Practices and Colonial Crucibles 22 2. Modern Girls and Racial Respectability 47 3. Local Manufacturing and Color Consciousness 75 4. Beauty Queens and Consumer Capitalism 98 5. Active Ingredients and Growing Criticism 150 6. Black Consciousness and Biomedical Opposition 190 Sedimented Meanings and Compounded Politics 221 Notes 237 Bibliography 293 Index
Acknowledgments ix A Layered History 1 1. Cosmetic Practices and Colonial Crucibles 22 2. Modern Girls and Racial Respectability 47 3. Local Manufacturing and Color Consciousness 75 4. Beauty Queens and Consumer Capitalism 98 5. Active Ingredients and Growing Criticism 150 6. Black Consciousness and Biomedical Opposition 190 Sedimented Meanings and Compounded Politics 221 Notes 237 Bibliography 293 Index
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