Black women are not 'exotic'

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This idea of black women as 'exotic', hyper-sexualized creatures can be seen again and again in cultural stereotypes. Try typing 'pretty' into Google image search and you are greeted with pages and pages and pages of white women's faces (the fashion industry is notoriously white; of the seventy-five British Vogue covers since the beginning of 2008, black women have featured on just three while Kate Moss alone has graced nine); but type in 'sexy' and suddenly far more women of colour appear-though they do remain far less represented than white women.

Laura Bates: Everyday sexism, London, Simon & Schuster, 2015, p. 285.