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1. India.Arie – I Am Not My Hair
2. The-Dream – Make Up Bag feat. T.I.
3. 6LACK – Unfair
4. Summer Walker – Body
5. Maxwell – Phoenix Rise
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Chapters
0:00 A Novel Approach
3:00 What’s Texturism?
5:33 The Essence of Project Pat
7:57 The Gold System
8:45 Preaching To The Choir
11:03 Chemically “Relaxed”
15:38 Non-Verbal
16:22 Apartheid
17:55 Making Ourselves Up
18:54 Chasing Perfection
22:40 Tone Trauma
27:56 Rom-Coms & Caricatures
31:30 The Body Dysmorphia Crisis
36:02 A Grand Design
37:39 Looking Forward
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Sources
1. Richland Library | #OwnVoices: Texturism https://www.richlandlibrary.com/blog/2021-03-10/ownvoices-texturism-reviewing-twisted-tangled-history-black-hair-culture
2. Allure | How To Figure Out Your Curl Type https://www.allure.com/gallery/curl-hair-type-guide
3. Yahoo Finance | Cosmetics Market Size Estimated to Reach USD 661.12 Bn by 2032 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cosmetics-market-size-estimated-reach-150000129.html
4. Cosmopolitan | I Need Black Female Shows like ‘Harlem’ to Stop Falling Into the Jezebel Trope https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/tv/a43065583/black-women-shows-jezebel-trope/
5. The University of Chicago Press Journals | A Punishing Look: Skin Tone and Afrocentric Features in the Halls of Justice https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/686941?mobileUi=0&
6. Refinery29 | I’m A Black Woman Living With Body Dysmorphia — & It’s Hell On Earth https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2022/10/11135248/body-dysmorphia-bdd-black-women
7. Precedence Research | Cosmetic Surgery Market (2023 to 2032) https://www.precedenceresearch.com/cosmetic-surgery-market
8. The New Yorker | The Age of Instagram Face https://www.newyorker.com/culture/decade-in-review/the-age-of-instagram-face
9. Melanated Women’s Health | Body Dysmorphia https://melanatedwomenshealth.com/body-dysmorphia-and-the-black-experience/
10. xoNecole | On Body Dysmorphia in Black Women https://www.xonecole.com/on-body-dysmorphia-in-black-women/
11. Jim Crow Museum | The Mammy Caricature https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/mammies/homepage.htm
12. BBC | From mammy to Ma: Hollywood’s favourite racist stereotype https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190530-rom-mammy-to-ma-hollywoods-favourite-racist-stereotype
13. The Well | What Everyone Needs To Know About Black Hair History https://www.the-well.com/editorial/what-everyone-needs-to-know-about-black-hair-history
14. NIH | Hair straightening chemicals associated with higher uterine cancer risk https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/hair-straightening-chemicals-associated-higher-uterine-cancer-risk
15. NYLON | Texturism is Keeping Folks with 4C Hair Out of Salons https://www.nylon.com/beauty/4c-hair-discrimination
16. Campaign for Safe Cosmetics | https://www.safecosmetics.org/black-beauty-project/
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