From Ebony to Ivory
From Ebony to Ivory
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从乌木到象牙色
DOI：
10.3167/ajec.2019.280107
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2019
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通讯作者：
Chiara Pussetti
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Chiara Pussetti
这篇文章讨论了肤色不平等对个人对社会包容和成功的愿望和前景、社会流动愿望、职业抱负和职业机会的影响。在民族志方面，它研究了葡萄牙特定形式的装饰性投资和自我优化及其对机构微观政治的影响，将个人的代理(他们如何赋予自己权力，最大化某些方面，最小化其他方面)与欧洲白人外表作为资本和大宗商品的一种形式流通的方式相关联，创造出非常种族主义的身体叙事。通过探究欧洲人对身体价值的实际理解，我们也可以理解殖民遗产，以及它是如何通过身体的变异来复制的。
This article discusses the impact of skin colour inequality in the individual aspirations and prospects of social inclusion and success, social mobility aspirations, professional ambitions and career opportunities. Ethnographically, it studies specific forms of cosmetic investments and self-optimisation in Portugal and its effects on the micropolitics of bodies, correlating the agency of individuals (how they empower themselves maximising certain aspects and minimising others) with the ways in which a European white appearance circulates as a form of capital and commodity, creating body narratives that are very much racialised. By inquiring the actual European understanding of value in bodies, we can also understand the colonial legacy and how it is reproduced through the mutation of bodies.