Fade to Blonde Argument

In Alvarado’s essay she explains how having latino women who dye their hair blonde are automatically treated different. With her own experience, the author quotes this, “If white women can change their hair color the way they change their lipstick-with complete impunity and no worries over ‘correctly’ representing their community-why couldn’t I?” What she means by that is when latino women dye their hair, they are looked down upon as say whores upon many other people. Many think of blonde hair beauties as white women but not anyone of a different race. When the author had blonde hair she was misinterpreted as a stripper. Basically what she’s saying is that latinos can’t go ‘fake’, like most white women, so Miss Alvarado chooses to reconcile her culturally imperfect hair color back to being a brunnette.

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