Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam

Author/Contributor(s):	Tu, Thuy Linh Nguyen
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	04/16/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the legacies of the Vietnam War on contemporary ideas about race and beauty, showing how US wartime efforts to alleviate the environmental and chemical risks to soldiers' skin has impacted how contemporary Vietnamese women use pharmaceutical cosmetics to repair the damage from the war's lingering toxicity.