{"id":677,"date":"2018-03-04T19:50:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T00:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/?p=677"},"modified":"2018-03-07T08:58:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T13:58:16","slug":"internalized-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/2018\/03\/04\/internalized-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Internalized Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 800px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-677-1\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/urctlt.com\/productionracestyle\/03\/Week-8.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/urctlt.com\/productionracestyle\/03\/Week-8.mp4\">http:\/\/urctlt.com\/productionracestyle\/03\/Week-8.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>For this weeks post, I focused on the article &#8220;Black Hair\/Style Politics&#8221; by Kobena Mercer.&#8221; The author discusses how Black hair has been constructed in American society. He contends against the mainstream idea against Black peoples&#8217; efforts to straighten or relax their hair, saying that this argument &#8220;rarely actually listen[s] to what people think and feel about it&#8221; (37). This lead me to contemplate the idea of internalized racism and how it affects people of color and how they navigate life. I wanted to tie the concept of internalized racism to the topic of Black hair, so I found this video which features various Black women telling stories about their hair. I didn&#8217;t use this in my video, but earlier in the original clip, Amandla Stenberg says that all Black women have stories about their hair. The audio clip that I inserted in the middle of the video is from Dee Watts-Jones as she explains what internalized racism is and how it affects both White people and People of Color. I overlaid a quote from the text onto the video to demonstrate how these women&#8217;s sense of internalized racism is used to subjugate the women to the dominant hegemony.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How does the idea that Black people cannot relax or straighten their hair without desiring to fit within the European beauty standard take away the agency of Black individuals?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why do you think there is such a lack of discussion of Black hair in mainstream media? What are the implications?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this weeks post, I focused on the article &#8220;Black Hair\/Style Politics&#8221; by Kobena Mercer.&#8221; The author discusses how Black<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3638,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[72728],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racialized-fashions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}