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The Search for Good Hair: Styling Black Womanhood in America |
| Section: CULTURE / HERITAGE |
| Author: Rachel Buchman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2001 |
| Size: 3,085 Words, 18,315 Characters |
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Many Americans see blacks and whites as genetically, or naturally, different, but race is a constructed identity. Feminist author Judith Butler feels that gender is "a constructed identity, a performative accomplishment which the mundane social audience, including the actors themselves, come to believe and to perform in the mode of belief." Applied to race, this means that being black is a matter of acting black, that culture, rather than genetics, distinguishes black from white.
If race is a constructed identity, it is important to identify who constructs it for whom. In America, whites negatively identified blacks for so long that an institutionalized racism emerged and still impacts our society. In Black Looks, bell hooks poses the idea that race, culture, and identity are active,...
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...ston, 1992.
------, "Jada Pinkett: The Thinking Woman's Actress," Essence, vol. 28, no. 11, 1998.
Noliwe Rooks, Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African-American Women, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 1996.
Shane and Graham White, "Slave Hair and African American Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," Journal of Southern History, vol. 61, no. 1, 1995.
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