![]() ![]() ![]() However, beauty as we know it in Western civilization is exclusionary. That’s not to say that she did not find herself beautiful by black standards, in the circles in which she travels - at the historically black institution of which she is an alumna, or Rudean’s, a legendary joint for black North Carolinians. Predominant standards of beauty center the white female body, and as a dark-skinned black woman, she exists outside that kind of beauty. What she explains in one of the most compelling sections of Thick is that beauty is about capital and power. Both were aghast that she would call the devil by its name in broad daylight. Both groups, as far as McMillan Cottom was concerned, were wrong. The comments, some of which she included in her collection Thick: And Other Essays were “brutal.” White women were upset with her for believing that she was unattractive when in their eyes, she was the opposite, and black women were upset with her for what they assumed was self-hatred on display. Tressie McMillan Cottom, who wrote an essay for Slate on the dangers of Miley’s now infamous MTV performance and inserted herself into the narrative by calling herself unattractive. Everyone had an opinion on her new gimmick, including sociologist Dr. The hit pieces calling out her cultural appropriation were ubiquitous. Morgan Jerkins | Longreads | January 2019 | 12 minutes (2,731 words)īack in 2013, Miley Cyrus was in the hip-hop phase of her career, during which she consorted with rappers and attempted to twerk for more notoriety. ![]()
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