{"id":32405,"date":"2013-07-18T02:48:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T02:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32405"},"modified":"2013-07-18T02:48:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T02:48:23","slug":"displaced-looks-the-lived-experience-of-beauty-and-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32405","title":{"rendered":"Displaced looks: The lived experience of beauty and racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1464700113483241\" target=\"_blank\">Displaced looks: The lived experience of beauty and racism<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fty.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Feminist Theory<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fty.sagepub.com\/content\/14\/2.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 14, Number 2<\/a>, August 2013\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\npages 137-151<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1464700113483241\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/1464700113483241<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/gps\/staff\/profile\/monica.moreno-figueroa\" target=\"_blank\">M\u00f3nica G. Moreno Figueroa<\/a><\/strong>, Lecturer in Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Newcastle University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0With a focus on appearance and racialised perceptions of skin colour, this paper discusses the differences between <em>being<\/em> and <em>feeling<\/em> acceptable, pretty or ugly and the possibility of such displacement (from being to feeling or vice versa), as a way to understand what beauty <em>does<\/em> in people\u2019s lives. The paper explores the fragility of beauty in relation to the visibility of the body in specific racialised contexts. It investigates the claim that beauty can be considered a feeling that emphasises processes (what beauty does) rather than contents (what beauty is). Drawing from life stories with Mexican women, I examine their concerns about visibility, temporality and appearance as expressions of racist practices and ideas, within a context where the racial project of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14551\" target=\"_blank\">mestizaje<\/a><\/em> (racial mixture) is in operation. Beauty matters as it makes evident the pervasiveness of racism in the everyday. The lived experience of beauty, in its displacement and fragility, as a feeling and as resource, can also point to some of the strategies to resist, cope and get on.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/fty.sagepub.com\/content\/14\/2\/137.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Displaced looks: The lived experience of beauty and racism Feminist Theory Volume 14, Number 2, August 2013\u00a0\u00a0 pages 137-151 DOI: 10.1177\/1464700113483241 M\u00f3nica G. Moreno Figueroa, Lecturer in Sociology Newcastle University \u00a0With a focus on appearance and racialised perceptions of skin colour, this paper discusses the differences between being and feeling acceptable, pretty or ugly and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,103,394,25],"tags":[15222,3584],"class_list":["post-32405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-mexico","category-socialscience","category-women","tag-feminist-theory","tag-monica-g-moreno-figueroa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32405","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=32405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}