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Race, Ethnicity, and Human Appearance<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter in Encyclopedia of Body Image and Human Appearance<\/em><\/a>
\n2012
\nPages 707\u2013710
\nDOI: 10.1016\/B978-0-12-384925-0.00111-5<\/a><\/p>\n

S. McClure<\/strong>
\nCase Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio<\/em><\/p>\n

M. Poole<\/strong>
\nEmery University, Atlanta, Georgia<\/em><\/p>\n

E.P. Anderson-Fye<\/strong>
\nCase Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio<\/em><\/p>\n

This article examines the intersection of race, ethnicity, and the body. Standards of beauty, as they are expressed globally in commodity culture, involve a \u2018rhetoric of feminine ugliness\u2019. This rhetoric presents that women\u2019s bodies are always in need of manipulation, alteration, and discipline to attain a beauty ideal. Increasingly, so are men\u2019s. However, racial and, to some extent, ethnic categorizations complicate narratives about the nature of beauty. How do racialized appearance and the rhetoric of ugliness interact in social, economic, and political contexts? Is beauty less a matter of engagement in \u2018beauty work\u2019 and more innate and inextricable from race and ethnicity? If beauty is a matter heavily influenced by cultural consensus, are the cultural structures of history and ideology any more mutable with respect to matters of race and ethnicity? This article addresses these questions.<\/p>\n

Glossary<\/strong><\/p>\n