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=Black and Beautiful???=

photo by Louis Lanzano, Associated Press Models walking down the aisle at New York Fashion Week, April 2007 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07113/780189-314.stm

America's Idol, Shirley Temple http://www.a-1video.com/Shirley%20Temple%20photo.JPG__

"Routinely at New York Fashion Week, many womens wear designers hire only one black model, or none. BCBG's Max Azria is among a handful of designers who never send black models down their runways." (Black and Beautiful by Lamont Jones, post-gazette.com)

"Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window sign - all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured. 'Here,' they said, 'this is beautiful, and if you are on this day "worthy" you may have it.'" (The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison, 1970)

""The truth of the matter is, black women in general are almost demonized, both by African-American men and the greater culture," said former fashion journalist Roy Campbell, a book author and celebrity event planner with offices in Philadelphia and Miami." (Black and Beautiful by Lamont Jones, post-gazette.com)

"I thought about the baby that everyone wanted dead, and saw it very clearly. It was in a dark, wet place, its head covered with O's of wool, the black face holding, like nickels, two clean black eyes, the flared nose, kissing-thick lips, and the living, breathing silk of black skin. No synthetic yellow bangs suspended over marble-blue eyes, no pinched nose and bowline mouth. More strongly than my fondness for Pecola, I felt a need for someone to want the black baby to live - just to counteract the universal love of white baby dolls, Shirley Temples, and Maureen Peals." (The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison, 1970)

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