Black Hair Acceptance by Diante Brown

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Our natural hairstyles are often seen as nappy, unprofessional and improper to others. This has been proven to cause us to land less job interviews, be removed from schools and fired from our place of work because of the belief that straight hair is more appealing to the eye and professional.

Discrimination.

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Black women are 1.5 times more than likely to get send home from their place of work because of their hair than any one else.

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Black hairstyles like Afros, braids etc. are often viewed as unprofessional for people outside the culture.

personal meaning

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Black hairstyles originate from African culture, which dates back to 3000 B.C. they aren’t just considered a style but it also is seen as a craft of art. In cultures, theses styles and braids were used to identify wealth, religion, age and martial status.

Understanding Identity and Personal Expression

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80% of black women feel pressured to change the style of their hair for work, so it wont be seen as unprofessional.

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During slavery, braids were used to send coded messages related to freedom with some even used as maps of the area surrounding them.

Start of change.

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In order to bring change and difference, there has to be a tipping point. Like dominos, one person, one thing, or even one moment can happen that can start to bring a change. Some would say Janet Jackson braids in the movie poetic justice, started the popularity and comfort of wearing braids seeing her do it in a successful movie.

Equality is always talked about and some believe we have it, but if we are all equal why aren’t our hairstyles accepted.

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Professional appearance when it comes to hair is an opinion usually stemming towards a group of people who can related to liking one thing and disliking the others. Your hair isn’t doing the job, the person is however its more likely that a woman with a slick back bun or a middle part with straight hair who is less qualified will get a job over a woman of color with an Afro, or dreadlocs or braids.

Taking away the styles of our hair is like suppressing our ancestry and not letting us express out past and future.

Do you know what doesn’t pop up when searching that up. The locs that signify, freedom and spirituality, the protective styles like Bantu knots, box braids and cornrows, The designs and patterns that were at first to be maps coded into our hair to lead to freedom but also now to show as we are still in touch with our ancestry and also creative and hold power

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If you were to search up professional hairstyles do you know what you would mainly see. Results of “professional hairstyles” are straight hair, ponytails, middle parts, low fades and buns.

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The Crown act

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the CROWN act is now also in place in 25 states which protects people’s education and job by making it illegal to discriminate on textures and styles which also allows more cultural expression

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