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The Challenges of Raising a Black Girl to Feel Beautiful

by lindaoppenheim | Jan 20, 2019 | Article | 0 comments

Christine Michel Carter discusses the strategy she uses with her seven-year-old daughter, Maya.  “My efforts to help her think of black women as beautiful in their own right has included calculated conversations since she was four—because I know the female standard of beauty is set at a young age. I’ve tried to teach her that the world’s definition of beauty may fluctuate, but her own standard of beauty should endure.” She references “last year’s study ‘Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood’ conducted by Georgetown Law’s Center on Poverty and Inequality. The study showed that Black girls as young as five years old were deemed less in need of nurturing, comfort, protection, and support by adults from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds.” Read the complete article by clicking here.

 

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