NewAfricanWoman Issue 49 - Flipbook - Page 63
SKIN BLEACHING
| HAIR & BEAUTY
FAST-FORWARD TO 2023, MANY
BLACK PEOPLE REMAIN UNAWARE
THAT LOATHING ONE’S SKIN
COLOUR AND THINKING LIGHTER
SKIN IS BETTER IS SO ROOTED
INTO SLAVERY.
Photography:shutterstock/ArinaYastrebova
“It was a colour thing and a class thing. And for generations of black people,
colour and class have been inexorably tied together.”
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