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Gen Z (born 1997-2010)
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Macro ExpertCarmen Alvaro Jarrín
Anthropologist studying the intersection of race, beauty, aesthetics, and inequality
Carmen Alvaro Jarrín is an associate professor of anthropology at College of the Holy Cross. They are the author of The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil, which explores the eugenic underpinnings of raciological thought among plastic surgeons as well as the aesthetic hierarchies of beauty that condense race, class, and gender inequalities in Brazil. They are also co-editor of two edited volumes, Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil, and Remaking the Human: Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement.Recent workBeauty in Latin America
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