
12 Apr The Art of Beauty – Owning Our Image
About this Episode
The mirror reflects only what it sees – strength, power or insecurities behind the outward face. But inward there is more to glean. For centuries, external forces have rendered Black women subhuman Mammy, Jezebel, tragic mulatto or emasculating beast. Black women have pushed back and are embracing a revolution, of sorts. Centering self, we have moved the dial to shirk off Eurocentric notions of physical beauty. We are also embracing our images with natural hair and rainbow hues on screen, becoming wiser beauty consumers and resisting powers that would diminish and define who we are.
In this Episode

Montré Missouri
Associate Professor in Film, Howard University
“Many of the stereotypes of black women in film and popular culture actually were constructed immediately after emancipation…to counter the notion that [we] should be looked at as fully human or seek socioeconomic or political equality.”