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The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity
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“Focusing on the diverse and particular ways that dominant beauty standards positioned white, black, and Asian women, these scholars argue that beauty standards maintained racial inequality as well as gender inequality.”
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