Black beauty doesn’t have to be natural to be powerful and true
Black, beautiful, and fake: ‘natural’ became the byword for Black beauty, but we should celebrate the artificial too
by Robyn Autry
Robyn Autry is a writer and sociologist at Wesleyan University, Connecticut. She is working on a book about artifice and Black beauty, and is the author of Desegregating the Past: The Public Life of Memory in the United States and South Africa (2017).
Written by Robyn Autry