African American Women's Hair

The African American woman heading back to its natural roots: How has European beauty influence the African American women’s hair? Throughout centuries in the United States as well as across the globe African American women has been demoralized through European hair standards. Over centuries stereotypes has limited black women to be subject to follow the European beauty standards.. There has been comments and gestures made that black women’s hair are unmanageable, dirty and not appropriate sociably or professionally. This creates a negative outlook upon women that are people of color because judgement over the years found black women hair to be unacceptable. In different articles interviews and random sampling it is discussed from several

The hair industry portrays black women to not be satisfied with their own hair, and Chris rocks tries to question the underlying root of why black women are not happy with their hair.Later on the film he explains that straightened chemical hair has been a burden that damages the black woman hair after a while in reality awhile there has been a decrease in chemical sales due to more black women going natural.

According to curlychic.com “In many cases If one chooses or is not able to access the resources to mimic this image of beauty, are they automatically not considered acceptable to the European standard”(curly chic.2016). Black women gives different segments of their hair that they do not seem happy that will make them feel as pretty.Black women initially have a hard time being accepted into society because of their fullness of lips and darker skin tone. Bountiful Hair conquered that, “natural hair has been viewed as a messy look which causes many women, who wear their hair in that manner, to feel poor and less desirable as their counterparts”(Kato Leonard,2015). Followed by “some scenarios those feelings of inadequacy causes women who posses natural hair to lash out at women with treated or straightened hair, and in turn lowers their self-esteem”(Leonard,

From that realization more and more are taking heed to their individualism which results in the natural hair movement for black women. This particular movement plays a part in demanding justice in being accepted for a feature we cannot change as a race. The natural hair movement has contributed to the black panthers movement in the saying “I'm Black and I'm Proud”, if Black panthers can realize the love they have of their features why can't women of the 2000s can