Lupita Nyong'o, the Kenyan-Mexican actress nominated for a slew of awards for her viscerally powerful performance as Patsey in Black British director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave. The Yale-trained actress is lighting up red carpets all over Hollywood with gown after gown of fashionista deliciousness. Lupita's hair is natural and kinky, her skin is the deepest chocolate – her beauty is undeniable. It has also been universally acknowledged and defined as such – and so it should. So far, articles about Lupita have unsurprisingly noted how inspiring she is for chocolate skinned women who routinely haven't made the cut as cover girl in this particular landscape. Vanity Fair's 'Hottest In Hollywood' issue has often been critiqued for its absence of black actors and actresses. This year, Lupita stands centrally, in gold lame, looking like a chocolate goddess. That kind of cover-girl treatment has traditionally been reserved for bodies and hair unlike that of Lupita – and so part of the celebration, say some, has been Lupita's unAmerican-ness – her international blackness.
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