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How Race Is a Big Factor in Beauty

Hedgen: Race is a huge factor. And how we create beauty norms that are tiedt national identity. Hejen says, it's no coincidence that one of the slogans of the black power movement in the sixties and seventies was, black is beautiful. She pointed to another more recent example of this transformation happening with alexandria ocassia cortez, so alsie,. as everyone calls her.

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