Power, Pleasure, and White Women’s Hair with Sarah Mesle
Summary
Host Christiana Mbacuy Medina interviews USC professor Sarah Mezel about her book *Tangled*, which analyzes white women’s hair as a symbol of racial power and complicity. They discuss how blonde hair functions as social currency, offering economic and professional advantages while masking systemic privilege. The conversation explores iconic figures like Princess Diana and Britney Spears to reveal how hair aesthetics reinforce whiteness, class status, and political ideology.
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