{"id":50317,"date":"2016-11-28T02:06:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T02:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50317"},"modified":"2016-11-28T02:06:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T02:06:46","slug":"if-you-cant-be-dark-skinned-in-africa-then-where-can-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50317","title":{"rendered":"If you can\u2019t be dark-skinned in Africa, then where can you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>And people bleach in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asia\" target=\"_blank\">Asia<\/a> \u2014 lightening creams and lotions are as ubiquitous in drugstores in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seoul\" target=\"_blank\">Seoul<\/a> as eye shadow. They do it in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Europe\" target=\"_blank\">Europe<\/a>, despite the restrictions there on sales of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hydroquinone\" target=\"_blank\">hydroquinone<\/a>. You can walk into any number of black beauty salons in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\">London <\/a>and find bleaching creams and lotions.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Africa\" target=\"_blank\">Africa<\/a>? If you can\u2019t be dark-skinned in Africa, then where can you?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Helene Cooper, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50284\" target=\"_blank\">What Is the Color of Beauty?<\/a>,\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em>, November 26, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/26\/fashion\/skin-bleaching-south-africa-women.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/26\/fashion\/skin-bleaching-south-africa-women.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And people bleach in Asia \u2014 lightening creams and lotions are as ubiquitous in drugstores in Seoul as eye shadow. They do it in Europe, despite the restrictions there on sales of hydroquinone. You can walk into any number of black beauty salons in London and find bleaching creams and lotions. But Africa? If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25559,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-50317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-helene-cooper","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50317","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=50317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50318,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50317\/revisions\/50318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}