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Margot Mifflin

The author of Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo and The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman, Margot Mifflin has written for publications including The New York Times and The New Yorker.


The Trailblazing Black Models of Miss America

Margot Mifflin on Lencola Sullivan and the Racism of Beauty Pageants
August 6, 2020  By Margot Mifflin
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