The selection includes two books on Black hair, one on nails, and one on the history of makeup. Together, they form part of a personal syllabus I’m building to better understand beauty as a cultural system—one that governs perception, labor, gender, and race. I haven’t read these books yet. I’m naming them now so I know where to return when I’m ready to think more deliberately about how Black women have used hair, nails, and makeup to manage image, resist ridicule, and naviga

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