The aesthetics of the black and deconstruction of centralization

Abstract

  This article seeks to shed light on the aesthetic standards of black people in relation to cultural and literary issues, by looking at the relativity of culture and the relativity of truth. This conception is in itself an act of resistance against the center, because the prevailing aesthetic standards were set by the center/white man as absolutes and everything else was marginalized. The self-centered Western center, which the white man represents, set the standards of beauty from its point of view, and everything else, I mean black people, was marginalized until these standards became the model to be emulated in judging beauty.