Yaba Amgborale Blay (M.A., Temple University; M.Ed., University of New Orleans; B.A. Salisbury State University) is a doctoral student in the Department of African American Studies at Temple University. Her research interests are related to Africana Cultural Aesthetics, Aesthetic Practices, Body Politics in Africana Communities, and Issues of Gender in Africa and the Diaspora. Her dissertation, tentatively entitled “Yellow Fever: Skin Bleaching and the Aesthetico-Cultural and Gendered Politics of Skin Color in Ghana,” seeks to situate the analysis of skin bleaching within the broader historico-cultural, aesthetico-cultural, and socio-political contexts within which it takes place. Yaba has taught undergraduate courses in African Aesthetics and Mass Media and the Black Community. Her current case study on skin color politics entitled “Pretty Color ‘n Good Hair: Creole Women of New Orleans and the Politics of Identity” will be published as a chapter in the forthcoming edited volume “Blackberries and Redbones: Critical Articulations of Black Hair/Body Politics in Africana Communities.”