On Beauty

On Beauty

by

Zadie Smith

Hip-hop

In On Beauty, hip-hop symbolizes Black identity. On the one hand, it represents how Black culture can be vibrant and poetic. But it also shows how popular ideas about urban Black culture can fail…

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The Hyppolite Painting

The painting of a nude Black woman by the famous Haitian painter Hyppolite represents how Black culture has its own proud aesthetic traditions of beauty and how academia focusing on the work of white men…

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