![]() Rapunzel informs us that beauty standards uphold white supremacy by idealizing white womanhood through representations of gold hair. ![]() Even today, this system of beauty still prevails and one way it has asserted itself is through fairytales like Rapunzel. Black women were harmed, as well as harmed themselves, because their beauty did not fit into these racialized standards. ![]() On the other hand, Black women were deemed ugly as well as forced to aspire to have the appearance of white women. ![]() White women became the direct definition of beauty, on the basis that they were white and possessed European features-which white men were attracted to. One way in which this system mainly exhibited itself was through the concept of beauty. In other words, white people and the appearances of white people became the accepted standard. This process of course labeled Black people, indigenous peoples, and people of color as savage as well as lesser than, on the basis that their skin wasn’t white. ![]() White-skinned Europeans labeled themselves as saviors, and having white skin became associated with the values of civility, justice, and good. Since the 1400s, skin color and physical appearance have been used as points of justification for harm and oppression. ![]()
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