"[Shame] also has physiological effects. Blushing, the most obvious and mundane of these effects, is so closely associated with shame that some people believed African Americans did not experience shame because their blushing was not visible. Thomas Jefferson offered up the ability to blush, along with ‘‘flowing hair’’ and ‘‘a more elegant symmetry of form,’’ as evidence of the superior beauty of white women. ‘‘Are not the fine mixtures of red and white, the expressions of every passion by greater or less suffusions of colour in the one, preferable to the eternal monotony, which reigns in the countenances, that immoveable veil of black which covers all the emotions of the other race?’’ Jefferson assumed that because only white women could manifest the outward signs of shame, they alone possessed the virtue of modesty."
— Melissa Harris-Perry Sister Citizen; Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America (via brashblacknonbeliever)
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