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Many people are aware of the struggles that African American women has endured for some time now. African American women has faced similar struggles compared to Caucasian women; however they struggles are totally different. For example, in the past no women could vote or voice her opinion. Society depicted women to be maids and baby makers. Society also created a standard for women that basically said white women are of higher quality than black women. They started to destroy black culture to insinuate that being a black women was not a good thing and black women could never be beautiful. As time progressed, many people began to defend black women and their culture through different platforms. One common platform is music. Artists used their

Over the course of many years, African Americans have influenced communities in many ways. African Americans have been used as slaves and segregated. After overcoming these struggles, they later were granted freedoms and rights. Many African American individuals have overcome these hard times and worked hard to achieve their dreams. Misty Copeland, Patricia Bath, and Madam C.J. Walker are courageous African-American women who have overcome racial stereotypes because of their determination to pursue what they love; Misty Copeland’s determination led her to pursue dance, and Patricia Bath and Madam C.J. Walker were strong, African American entrepreneurs.

This Ted Talk discusses the challenges African Americans who have naturally curly hair experience. It discusses how society tells people with curly hair that straight hair is prettier, and the effects on cultural identity of African American women today. Many women go to the hair salon to straighten their hair (which causes damage), or put weaves or wigs in. Today, African American women will straighten their hair, in order to achieve a professional look. Dreadlocks, Afrocentric/Pro-Black and urban hairstyles are look down upon. Cochrane urges for this to change. Ursula Burns is the first African American female CEO of a Fortune 500 company -- of Xerox, and she is best known for her naturally curly Afro. Most women, such as Michelle Obama straighten

The founding father, Thomas Jefferson, is known for his intellect and historical impact. Credited as the lead author of the Declaration of Independence and an opposer of slavery, his views on the black race originally came as a shock to me. In “Thomas Jefferson on the African Race,” Jefferson states that in order to compare the races they must be tested in America by the white standard. In doing this, Jefferson cements whiteness as default and perpetuates an ideology that has not been overturned to this day.

There are many aspects of how beauty has played an important role within the African American history. Since early time periods, beauty has constantly been implied within various aspects of cultures that has been passed down from generation to generation. Based on today’s society, there has been a lot of influence within the beauty industry that has been shown to have some sort of effect based upon the social, economic, and political context of African American individual throughout the twentieth century.

Europe, Africa, and the Americas each had intelligent societies developed in them. However, geography of the territories they lived in contributed to the development of these civilizations. Civilizations that lived close to each other often influenced or inspired each other. Moreover, civilizations often took from their predecessors. A key example of this is when the Aztecs destroyed and took over the Toltec Native American’s land. Another example was when the Mali Empire took over the Ghana Empire. Instead of completely throwing away all of the Ghana Empire’s activities, they continued the gold-salt trade through the Sahara. They designed their city similar to the Toltecs, and made it significantly more lavish. Additionally, the ability to trade with neighboring civilizations

When slaves were first brought to America, they were stripped of their cultures. Their names, religions, and even their languages were taken away from them. In the new African American culture, jazz and blues which evolved to rock and hip hop, family reunions, and even Sunday dinners were some parts of the culture that were and still are passed on to generations. Out of the many pastimes in the African American culture, hair has always been a prominent part of the black community. Why? Hair has been a form of identity for the black community. We identify ourselves and we stand out from other cultures. This is why almost every black woman has experienced the fear of the hot comb, the burn of a perm, the tightness of braids, and the good feeling

African-American pop culture and pop culture in general, may be researched by a lot of researchers but I still get the impression that its roots are badly overlooked. Pop culture isn’t only an entertainment but it has some great depth into it that makes it worth learning the subject. In my thesis, I want to give more attention to the development of the African-American culture throughout all these years from the very beginning. How only one race can make a significant changes, not only in their own nation but in the country they’ve been brought to ruthlessly. It’s amazing how the human race that used to be treated literally like animals, representing the lowest class, benefitted the ones that used them in the past with their creativity

When I look around me I see people that are different shapes, sizes, and are different races, however what seems to be very interesting and unique about everyone is our hair. Our hair defines our personality that we carry into the community. Especially in the African-American culture our hair is considered ever changing, new, and trend setting. From the braids, to locs, perms, or just being natural, African-American women do not play about their hair. Though when we get our hair done it is a process and it takes time for our hair to look so good, we struggle with issues that come along with how are hair looks. If our hair doesn’t look a certain way we get teased or laughed at because it doesn’t meet the standards of how “African-American” hair

Hate it or love it, frizz is a fact of life for those of us with curly and kinky hair types. Sometimes a bit of frizz makes all the difference, either by adding volume and pizzazz to style or by ruining a sleek look. Frizz matters. Even if you don’t mind having frizz from a styling standpoint, frizzy hair looks dry and dull and is much more likely to get tangled. Embracing frizz is one thing but promoting it is another thing entirely.

Traction alopecia is a type of hair loss that results when hair is subjected to stress from being pulled too tightly. The constant pulling on the scalp results in the hair being dragged from the hair follicle. The follicle may sustain permanent damage in some instances and if this happens hair will never re-grow from it. If you’ve ever installed braids so tight your scalp is tender for days or pulled your ponytail so tight that your forehead looks like you had an injection of Botox then you were creating the exact conditions that can lead to traction alopecia.

Natural curly girls of the world understand that our hair is quite different from the rest. Different in the sense that we have to take special care of our tresses in order to maintain those lovely curly locks. All black women understand that maintaining our curly hair is not a simple feat due to the many factors that go into black hair care and learning to maintain our hair without chemically altering it. Here are 3 top categories along with tips to properly manage and style black hair to keep it healthy and win the race of hair.

African American rapper “Lil’Kim” publicly admitted to getting surgery and bleaching her skin, saying “really beautiful women that left me thinking, how I can I compete with that? Being a regular black girl wasn 't good enough.” This trend of women being unhappy with their bodies is not uncommon. 53% of 13-year-old American girls are unhappy with their bodies, this grows to 78% by the time they are 17 (Maine, 2011). Due to this, more women result to practices making themselves more “attractive”. One of these practices is the art of wearing cosmetics. Self-conscious women are more likely to wear cosmetics than less self-conscious women and report that they believe their social interactions are more pleasurable when they wear makeup (Miller &

The black slaves of colonial American brought their own culture from Africa. Contributed greatly to the development of American’s own dance, music, art, food and clothing. When Africans were taken from their homeland and brought to America as slaves, they also brought with them their individual cultures, languages and customs. Culture defines people’s values, beliefs, and personal interests. Culture is important because it allows people to maintain their identity. During slavery, they were expected to adopt to their slave owners culture. My culture shares many similarities with others around the world; My parents are both from Sierra Leone and they brought their culture to America. They did not forget about family’s traditions and food.

While both men and women, France and North America were revolutionized by new hairstyling hair-cuts for both sexes, the African-American society also redefined their personal style as an effect the African-American Civil Rights Movement, which also brought an appreciation of African beauty and aesthetics, as embodied by the Black is beautiful movement. The Afro became popular among the Black Panther Party, and famous artists, such as the Jackson Five and the Supremes.