...wail of the weeping La Llorona? The mythical urban legend, La Llorona, hunts for and captures wandering children by quiet and lonesome rivers. She forever will be searching for children that resemble her own to mourn their grieving deaths. The La Llorona has forever done so after her own death by suicide in the same river as her beloved children. The reason for her wailing and searching for her children for so long is because she was denied at the gates of heaven and will not be sent into the afterlife until she finds her children that are unknowingly already in the afterlife and that she will never find them. The La Llorona has been around for many centuries and has been known to wail a horrible weeping that exclaims, “Ay, mi hijos!”, or “Oh, my children!” The La Llorona has been reported in many states and U.S. territories along the southern border of the America’s. The La Llorona...
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...Running head: RACIALIZED REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMALE BEAUTY 1 Racialized Representations of Female Beauty in Popular Culture (Name) University of New Mexico RACIALIZED REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMALE BEAUTY Racialized Representations of Female Beauty in Popular Culture 2 For the past 22 years People magazine has composed a list of the 50 most beautiful people. The list typically includes movie and television stars, musicians, British royalty, models, and television personalities. Every year the magazine crowns the year’s “most beautiful” and features them on the cover. Of the 22 most beautiful 19 have been women and out of the 19 women 16 have been White. This signals to People’s readers that beautiful means White and everything else does not equate beauty. However, this is not unique to People or even magazines like it, but instead represents a larger trend that is present in all forms of Western popular culture. In the various mediums of popular culture, ideologies about female beauty are exceedingly prevalent and constantly managed and reproduced. These ideologies carry with them the notion that in order to obtain ideal female beauty one must be very thin, young, have long hair, and wear expensive or revealing clothing (Stern, 2004). In addition to this there is also a raced definition of beauty, which predominates Western popular culture and dictates that White women with light hair and eye color can only attain true beauty. By looking closely at fashion magazines...
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