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I Am Not My Hair

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Turner, Feliece

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Clason, Christopher
Garfinkle, David

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People in society often base their identity on the way they look, modeling themselves after images seen in the media. Constructed through cultural ideals, image as identity has be­ come the basis for determining societal norms. In this research I use Black feminist theory to show how hair in the Black com­munity has become a contributing factor when determining standards of identity through image, as well as through cul­tural acceptance of what it means to be Black. Through au­toethnography I analyze the ways in which societal, cultural, gendered and media norms control race representations based on hair.

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Turner, Feliece. "I Am Not My Hair" Oakland Journal 25 (2015). 58-82

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2015-01-01

Subject


Black women

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http://hdl.handle.net/10323/8004

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