"The Promise of Beauty," by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor of gender and women’s studies Mimi Thi Nguyen (IMAGE)

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"The Promise of Beauty," by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor of gender and women’s studies Mimi Thi Nguyen

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor of gender and women’s studies Mimi Thi Nguyen explores the relationship between beauty and crisis, and how examining beauty can point to the social and political conditions necessary for a good life. Her new book is “The Promise of Beauty.”

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