Why celebrating ‘mixed-race beauty' has its problematic side

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Kim Kardashian West at a Paris Fashion Week event on 2 March 2020. Photograph: Marc Piasecki/WireImage

The trend personified by the Kardashians is driven by the aesthetics of ambiguity – and proximity to whiteness.

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/08/why-celebrating-mixed-race-beauty-has-its-problematic-side