""You're pretty to be dark-skinned."" I have always wondered what that meant. That dark-skinned women are ugly? That being pretty and dark-skinned is an exception? There are so many women all over the world that have probably heard this before and wondered the same thing. But... It is not an exception, it is all about you! Knowing who you are, loving who you are, making standards for your life, and setting boundaries are all part of what gives you power for everything that you do. I knew I was worth more and I knew that my life had meaning and purpose. That's when I began to search for my true identity by listening to my inner voice, dictating my own worth, and turning love inward. I learned how to embrace authentic power of the human spirit. I have learned to turn my inner ugly into my inner beauty, I own it, and now I want to share it with you. Everyone has a story and things that have had to overcome, but when you can claim HOWEV'A over the situation that is when you can claim your victory!

Ideal for instructors who want the flexibility to assign additional readings, Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach, Brief Second Edition, is a topical text that engages students in significant questions related to racial dynamics in the United States and around the world. Shorter thanGolash-Boza's highly acclaimed comprehensive text, the Brief Second Edition features a streamlined narrative and is enhanced by its own unique features.Organized into topics and concepts rather than discrete racial groups, the text addresses:* How and when the idea of race was created and developed* How structural racism has worked historically to reproduce inequality* How we have a society rampant with racial inequality, even though most people do not consider themselves to be racist* How race, class, and gender work together to create inequality and identities* How immigration policy in the United States has been racialized* How racial justice could be imagined and realizedCentrally focused on racial dynamics, Race and Racisms, Brief Second Edition, also incorporates an intersectional perspective, discussing the intersections of racism, patriarchy, and capitalism.

The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Avon, Coty, Estée Lauder, L'Oréal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us. This book provides the first authoritative history of the global beauty industry from its emergence in the nineteenth century to the present day, exploring how today's global giants grew. It shows how successive generations of entrepreneurs built brands which shaped perceptions of beauty, and the business organizations needed to market them. They democratized access to beauty products, once the privilege of elites, but they also defined the gender and ethnic borders of beauty, and its association with a handful of cities, notably Paris and later New York. The result was a homogenization of beauty ideals throughout the world. Today globalization is changing the beauty industry again; its impact can be seen in a range of competing strategies. Global brands have swept into China, Russia, and India, but at the same time, these brands are having to respond to a far greater diversity of cultures and lifestyles as new markets are opened up worldwide. In the twenty first century, beauty is again being re-imagined anew.

DanceHall combines cultural geography, performance studies and cultural studies to examine performance culture across the Black Atlantic. Taking Jamaican dancehall music as its prime example, DanceHall reveals a complex web of cultural practices, politics, rituals, philosophies, and survival strategies that link Caribbean, African and African diasporic performance. Combining the rhythms of reggae, digital sounds and rapid-fire DJ lyrics, dancehall music was popularized in Jamaica during the later part of the last century by artists such as Shabba Ranks, Shaggy, Beenie Man and Buju Banton. Even as its popularity grows around the world, a detailed understanding of dancehall performance space, lifestyle and meanings is missing. Author Sonjah Stanley Niaah relates how dancehall emerged from the marginalized youth culture of Kingston’s ghettos and how it remains inextricably linked to the ghetto, giving its performance culture and spaces a distinct identity. She reveals how dancehall’s migratory networks, embodied practice, institutional frameworks, and ritual practices link it to other musical styles, such as American blues, South African kwaito, and Latin American reggaetòn. She shows that dancehall is part of a legacy that reaches from the dance shrubs of West Indian plantations and the early negro churches, to the taxi-dance halls of Chicago and the ballrooms of Manhattan. Indeed, DanceHall stretches across the whole of the Black Atlantic’s geography and history to produce its detailed portrait of dancehall in its local, regional, and transnational performance spaces.

You see a beautiful woman standing only a few feet away. She's HOT, and you know that you want to BANG HER. You want to do something to start a sexual relationship with her, but yet you don't even know what to say to start things off.You try to find some words to utter to start a conversation, and spark chemistry through flirting, but your brain freezes.Not a word comes out.Anxiety accumulates and you eventually give into one of these excuses: "A cute girl like that has a boyfriend 100%.""If I try to talk to her, it will be awkward and cringe because I suck at conversation.""I won't know what to say, and will look like an idiot in-front of bystanders."How many more times are you you going to put yourself through this painful situation of seeing a sexy, young woman but being PARALYZED FROM TAKING ACTION because you can't think of a few words to say to initiate interaction?This book, based on thousands of approaches and interactions with women and over a decade of research, is: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO ALWAYS KNOWING WHAT TO SAY, and BEING ABLE TO APPROACH WOMEN ANYTIME AND ANYWHERE.Learn POWERFUL SECRETS contained within this book, including: how to terminate excuses forever and approach women,6 reasons why you don't know what to say infront of women,6 affirmations to never run out of things to say,6 mindsets to always have something to say,5 specific exercises you can do to sharpen your conversation skills,6 chick crack conversation subjects,3 good opening lines4 examples of cold reads5 pillars of game7 ways to instantly appear more confident,5 tactics to instantly create social proof,13 items on the body-language checklist4 mistakes that nice guys make14 common conversation mistakes and sin

The most significant conquest of the twentieth century may well have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe's bourgeois civilization. It is this little-understood but world-shaking campaign that unfolds in de Grazia's account of how the American standard of living defeated the European way of life and achieved the global cultural hegemony that is both its great strength and its key weakness today. Tracing the peculiar alliance that arrayed New World salesmanship, statecraft, and standardized goods against the Old World's values of status, craft, and good taste, de Grazia describes how all alternative strategies fell before America's consumer-oriented capitalism--first the bourgeois lifestyle, then the Third Reich's command consumption, and finally the grand experiment of Soviet-style socialist planning.--From publisher description.