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“Rich or poor, educated or not, black women sometimes feel as though myths are stalking them like shadows, their lives reduced to a string of labels.
The angry black woman. The strong black woman. The unfeeling black woman. The manless black woman.
“Black women haven’t really defined themselves,” says author Sophia Nelson, who urges her fellow sisters to take control of their image. “We were always defined as workhorses, strong. We carry the burdens, we carry the family. We don’t need. We don’t want.”
In a new nationwide survey conducted by The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation, a complex portrait emerges of black women who feel confident but vulnerable, who have high self-esteem and see physical beauty as important, who find career success more vital to them than marriage. The survey, which includes interviews with more than 800 black women, represents the most extensive exploration of the lives and views of African American women in decades.”
She directs pointed critiques at black churches and at the civil rights movement, which relied on women to organize and execute, but seldom welcomed them to the stage.
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“As an attractive black woman with 36-27-40 measurements, burgeoning model Wahidah Fowler shouldn’t have a problem getting cast in any hip-hop video. But she also wears locs. During the course of her career, the Brooklyn native has been faced with directors who wouldn’t feature her as a lead because of her hair. Still, Fowler has been able to find work on her own terms.
“I have never put on a wig just to suit a casting agent’s liking. I am a package, if you don’t like what I have to offer, you can pick the next girl,” she says. “However, thanks to my hair and diversity I have managed to brand my image more effectively than women that wear a more traditional hairstyles, like a perm.”
Despite the hurdles, Fowler has appeared in a range of videos from Juelz Santana to Maino, worked as a TV correspondent for CBS and appeared in Black Hair Sophisticates magazine. She represents a rising number of professional women who have decided to grow locs and celebrate the ancient style while dispelling common public misconceptions in the process.”
Check out the full article, it’s a great read. Major props to @GangStarrGirl for approaching this topic with so much poise.
