The John T. Washington Lecture Series“It Could, in Fact, Conquer the Color Line”: Black Women, Beauty Advertisements, and Dreams of EqualityThursday, Feb. 17, 20226-7:30 p.m.
UCF Alumni in partnership with the UCF Department of History's Africana Studies Program is pleased to host the 4th Annual Dr. John T. Washington Lecture Series benefiting scholarships for Africana Studies Minors! This year's speaker is Dr. Leah Gaines a University of Central Florida lecturer. Considering historical practices of determining beauty and access to opportunity, this research calls for the challenging of current and future societal definitions of beauty, the politics of respectability, and the way that race is either privileged or deemed unworthy in society.