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Ask Code Switch: What does race have to do with beauty? : Code Switch This time of year, folks are being inundated with messages about how to become more beautiful. But beauty is an ever-changing goalpost that has everything do with race, class and power.

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Ask Code Switch: What does race have to do with beauty?

Ask Code Switch: What does race have to do with beauty?

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It's not easy being beautiful. No matter what they say.
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It's not easy being beautiful. No matter what they say.
LA Johnson/NPR

This time of year, folks are being inundated with messages about how to become more beautiful. But beauty is an ever-changing goalpost that has everything do with race, class and power.

So today, we're revisiting one of our favorite past #AskCodeSwitch episodes about the pressure to be slim-thick, how empires create beauty standards, and how to decolonize your beauty routine (if that's even possible.)