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Book Reviews

Beneath the surface: a transnational history of skin lighteners

by Lynn M. Thomas, Johannesburg, Wits University Press/Duke University Press, 2020, ix + 352 p., softback, ISBN 9781776146154

References

  • Modern Girl Around the World Research Group (Alys Eve Weinbaum, Lynn M. Thomas, Priti Ramamurthy, Uta G. Poiger, Madeleine Y. Dong, and Tani E. Barlow), editors. The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity and Globalization. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
  • Ribane Nakedi. 2006. Beauty: A Black Perspective. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.
  • Hunter, Monica. 1936. Reaction to Conquest: Effects of Contact with Europeans on the Pondo of South Africa. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Thomas, Lynne, M. 2020. Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners. Johannesburg: Wits University Press/Duke University Press.
  • Thwala, Zinhle. 2017. “Bleaching to Become Beautiful? The Use of Skin Lighteners and the Effects on isiZulu-Speaking Women in Madadeni Township in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, 1950s to 2000s.” MA thesis, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

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