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Podcast: In Conversation: An OUP Podcast
Episode: Nadia E. Brown and Danielle Casarez Lemi, "Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Description: All political candidates make strategic choices about how to present themselves to voters but not all candidates have to âweigh decisions about their self-presentation alongside stereotypical tropes, culture norms that denigrate Blackness, and European beauty standards, in addition to the historical legacies of racism, colorism, sexism, and heteropatriarchy.â Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites (Oxford UP, 2021) interrogates the âeveryday politicization of Black womenâs bodies and its ramifications for politics.â Hair is not simply hair.Drs. Brown and Lemi use a wide-range of qualitative and quantitative methods, including focus groups with Black women candidates and elected offic...