An examination of why blonde privilege is real.
,” Rankine and Lucas’s new exhibition at Brooklyn’s Pioneer Works. The images of hair—straight, coiled, and buzz cut, in shades from platinum to golden to starkly two-tone—have been shrunk down to fit onto custom-made postage stamps, in a nod to blonde’s currency in society and the layered messages it conveys. Audio from Rankine’s on-the-street interviews also fills the space, with questions about the impetus behind a dye job. The reasons are many: to stand out, to look younger, to turn heads.
There seems to be two types of purity here, though. The racialized one, and the one about virgin, untreated hair. That’s where the transgression seems to come in with bleached hair. Rankine: I was at the Martin Luther King museum, where he was shot, and the woman at the front desk had her hair dyed blonde; she was a black woman. And I said to her, “Here’s a museum that’s interested in white supremacy and preserving the history of the killing of this amazing civil rights leader.
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