{"id":715,"date":"2018-03-05T00:30:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T05:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/?p=715"},"modified":"2018-03-07T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T14:00:03","slug":"715","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/2018\/03\/05\/715\/","title":{"rendered":"Othering &#8211; Black Hair"},"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-715-1\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/urctlt.com\/productionracestyle\/03\/PRS-Othering.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/urctlt.com\/productionracestyle\/03\/PRS-Othering.mp4\">http:\/\/urctlt.com\/productionracestyle\/03\/PRS-Othering.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOthering is a strategy that reinforces the mainstream by differentiating individuals and groups and relegating them to the margins according to a range of socially constructed categories.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8211; (Ouellette &amp; Gray 190)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As I am focusing on Black hair for my blog post and discussion leading this week, I feel that \u201cothering\u201d is the best keyword to apply to this topic. When Black hair is discussed in media, or society in general, it is typically discussed or viewed as the \u201cother\u201d in comparison to a European beauty standard, or not discussed at all. Specifically, in regards to non-black people, specifically white, touching Black people\u2019s hair perpetuates this otherness. This is the premise of which the Hair Nah game by Momo Pixel was based on. Black people, especially Black women, are constantly implied to represent the \u201cother\u201d when people try to touch our hair or ask to touch our hair. Momo Pixel created a game for Black women who have \u201cundergone the uncomfortable experience of having someone rush to stroke their textured tresses, without permission\u201d (Payne, \u201cMomo Pixel \u2018Hair Nah\u2019 Video Game Interview\u201d). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For my blog post, I included clips from three different videos, all of Black women discussing Black hair in some way. The first video is of a YouTuber ranting about people trying to touch her hair. The second video is of women in entertainment discussing their personal hair experiences over the years. The third video is the evolution of Black hair over a span of 100 years. I also included a picture of an arm reaching into a Black woman\u2019s hair to use with my quote, as it displays the idea of \u201cothering\u201d and the uncomfortability it can bring to Black people, specifically Black women. At the end, with the last video, I muted the audio from the video and used audio from Solange Knowles\u2019 song \u201cDon\u2019t Touch My Hair\u201d which has become a very important song for the Black community, as well as other people of color. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additional Media:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sGcFBNDrluE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discussion Questions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How does the desire of people to touch Black hair contribute to the \u201cothering\u201d of not only Black hair, but also Black people?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What are the implications of non-Black people doing \u201cBlack\u201d hairstyles? Should these hairstyles be considered cultural appropriation?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cOthering is a strategy that reinforces the mainstream by differentiating individuals and groups and relegating them to the margins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2949,"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-715","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\/715","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\/2949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}