"A Mexican Who Looks Like You": Reflections on the Politics of Hair from Outside the Black/ White Binary" by Genevieve Scherer https://padlet.com/gscherer1/pg8uri8x6plg Ophtavia Green Genevieve Scherer en-us 2018-02-09 16:28:19 UTC 2025-11-28 01:25:03 UTC hello@padlet.com Research methods gscherer1 https://padlet.com/gscherer1/pg8uri8x6plg/wish/230096901 Spoken from someone who has experienced this topic first hand, observation, performance, personal narrative, qualitative ]]> 2018-02-09 16:37:48 UTC https://padlet.com/gscherer1/pg8uri8x6plg/wish/230096901 Thesis statement gscherer1 https://padlet.com/gscherer1/pg8uri8x6plg/wish/230097819 “Throughout this nation’s history, Latinos, Mexicans included, have been shuffled back and forth between this binary—through dominant constructions trying to keep them out of whiteness or through their/our own rhetorical turning away from blackness" (Perez 395-396).]]> 2018-02-09 16:39:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gscherer1/pg8uri8x6plg/wish/230097819 Purpose gscherer1 https://padlet.com/gscherer1/pg8uri8x6plg/wish/230098320 Let audience know what it’s like to be told you do not look Mexican enough, to be told you are appropriating culture because you are wearing locks but look like a white person.]]> 2018-02-09 16:40:44 UTC https://padlet.com/gscherer1/pg8uri8x6plg/wish/230098320 Intended audience gscherer1 https://padlet.com/gscherer1/pg8uri8x6plg/wish/230098930 This piece was intended for anyone who is willing to be educated on this subject, and even those who are not. There is not one specific audience, it would be good for anyone to read.]]> 2018-02-09 16:41:51 UTC https://padlet.com/gscherer1/pg8uri8x6plg/wish/230098930 Vocabulary gscherer1 https://padlet.com/gscherer1/pg8uri8x6plg/wish/230099657 Obvious repetitiveness of the word “OK”, the author was going for this to create a certain affect 

“I think through the layers of temporality of intimate publics and their relations, OK will have to do for now. For now, as I tend to these and other stories, OK performs ambivalence, but also agency and mobility, and a placeholder to tend to these relations and their meanings.”


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