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Download full textAkintunde, Omowale – 1997
This paper explores how feelings of self-hatred in African Americans are perpetuated through media and the standard physical and ideological manifestations of Christianity. The notion that skin that is closer to white and hair that is closer to white are both more desirable attributes is a dominant theme underlying the African American experience.…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Blacks, Christianity, Mass Media Effects
