'Linda Morenita': Skin colour, beauty and the politics of mestizaje in Mexico

Cultures of Colour: Visual, Material, Textual

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 167-180

  Figueroa, Mónica Moreno ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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