{"id":30145,"date":"2013-04-05T04:01:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T04:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30145"},"modified":"2013-04-05T04:01:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T04:01:16","slug":"the-colour-of-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30145","title":{"rendered":"The Colour of Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/colour_of_beauty\" target=\"_blank\">The Colour of Beauty<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Film Board of Canada<\/a><br \/>\n2010<br \/>\n00:16:50<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ca.linkedin.com\/pub\/elizabeth-st-philip\/a\/428\/a89\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth St. Philip<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Renee Thompson is trying to make it as a top fashion model in New York. She&#8217;s got the looks, the walk and the drive. But she\u2019s a black model in a world where white women represent the standard of beauty. Agencies rarely hire black models. And when they do, they want them to look \u201c<strong>like white girls dipped in chocolate.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/colour_of_beauty\" target=\"_blank\">The Colour of Beauty<\/a><\/em> is a shocking short documentary that examines racism in the fashion industry. Is a black model less attractive to designers, casting directors and consumers? What is the colour of beauty?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/colour_of_beauty\/embed\/player\" width=\"516\" height=\"320\" ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>View the French version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/couleur_de_la_beaute\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colour of Beauty National Film Board of Canada 2010 00:16:50 Elizabeth St. Philip Renee Thompson is trying to make it as a top fashion model in New York. She&#8217;s got the looks, the walk and the drive. But she\u2019s a black model in a world where white women represent the standard of beauty. Agencies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,19,8,394,20,842,25],"tags":[14286,5523,14287],"class_list":["post-30145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-canada","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-videos","category-women","tag-elizabeth-st-philip","tag-national-film-board-of-canada","tag-renee-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}