Hair In African American Culture

During this Great Migration, Black people fled racism and lack of opportunities in the American South and settled in northern cities like Chicago. Richard Nathaniel Wright and James Baldwin were writers of this phase. The current phase started from 1970 till now. Social and political forces in the black community in the 1960s and 1970s sought to change the way African Americans were defined and treated. The Black Arts Movement sought to change how blacks were represented and portrayed in literature and the arts.

From those times, the population of African American women that have enrolled in college has greatly increased. Within regards to the Black Panther Movement, there have been a lot of women who were taking a stand for what they believed in within regards to expressing and embracing their culture. Ford vividly talks about Olive Morris, who was a British community leader and an activist in the black feminist campaigns in the United Kingdom. She also describes an altercation that Morris had wit the police when they arrested her nd sexual brutalized

White people do not want black people to go north and be free, white people want black people in a place where they have control over what they say and do. White people do not like the “positive knowledge or manly self-assertion on the part of the [black man]” (144). When Richard works at the optical building and he lets the staff there know that he is going north, they are all confused because it is not the same as the south. White people do not want black people to have opportunities, and they do all they can to take it away those opportunities. The white people reaching to take the books out of under Richard’s feet show the opportunities Richard created for himself, being unjustly taken from

When a large company begins hiring they try to pick an individual that would be perfect for their store and customers. Many large companies try to avoid hiring individuals that face hate around the world, they do this because they want customers to feel safe around the store. And since some people believe that muslims are “terrorist” and cause “terrorism” many companies avoid hiring an individual that comes from an islamic background. In the New York Times, Steven Greenhouse stated “On Sept. 1, the commission filed a case against Abercrombie & Fitch, the fashionable clothing retailer, accusing it of discrimination for refusing to hire an 18-year-old Muslim because she was wearing a head scarf” (New York Times). From this passage we can see that muslims face racism in their daily lives, a muslim girl could not get a job because of the way she was dressed.

Blacks went through more pain that any other race could ever imagine. The Civil Rights movement was so necessary for the United States to come together as a nation and a whole. In Civil Rights movement African Americans impacted the nation, while marching for freedom caused violence, although Jim crow laws were running the South rapid. African Americans can now go one and be the best version of themselves thanks to the Black heroes who put their life on the line for other blacks. Black History month shouldn 't just be a month it should be celebrated all year

Ana has more curves than her mother would like her to have. Carmen thinks just because Ana is “fat” she will not be able to find a husband. But Ana is comfortable with her body and encourages the other women in the factory to love themselves for who they are and take chances. That is exactly what Ana did when she finally got her father’s blessing and decided to go to New York for college. In this movie Carmen role as a mother was not what I was used to seeing or having contact with.

In “Hair Relaxer: An Origin Story” Tiana Clark uses Personification and similes to talk about a common experience that most black women have faced in their lives and to characterize the speaker and the hair relaxer. In this poem the hair relaxer is the embodiment of the European standards of hair that Black women have long tried to achieve. Recently, there has been a move away from European standard of beauty and a return to embracing the natural hair that black women are born with. Clark uses this poem to talk about how black women frequently put themselves through the pains of getting a relaxer so that their hair can “swing like the white girls” (9) but now they are starting to accept the way their hair naturally curls and coils while rejecting the standards

Lorraine Hansberry Broadway play A Raisin In The Sun illustrates how African American families struggled throughout life for justice and civil rights. Hansberry being an African American, was underrated an extraordinary writer. Many decades have passed and changed has occurred regarding race and discrimination. However in Today’s society we continue to face and see discrimination still takes place with injustice for African Americans and other minorities. Dreams and aspirations is what keeps the Younger family motivated regardless of race and injustice.

In today’s society the NAACP has influenced a lot of things that goes on in the African American culture. For some that don’t know what the NAACP is, it is the most influential group of colored people since the civil rights movement. It’s also one of the oldest groups. The NAACP started after The Race Riot of 1908 in Springfield, Illinois. It is said to say that the group officially started in response of the practicing of lynching African Americans in america.

Women were allowed to graduate and become nurses or teachers, the only careers seen fit for women. This was a limitation for women, but this limitation only encouraged women to surpass their expectations and push the limits of what they could achieve as strong and successful members of society.“...by the end of the decade, women represented 47%