Doing hair, doing race: the influence of hairstyle on racial perception across the US

Sims, Jennifer Patrice; Pirtle, Whitney N. Laster; Johnson-Arnold, Iris

doi:10.1080/01419870.2019.1700296

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“…Lighter skin may result in a Black woman being perceived as in multiple non-Black categories (Brown 2014), and darker skin may result in a Black woman being perceived as solely Black (Sims 2016a). Skin tone may combine with other features, such as hairstyle, to alter the racial experiences of Black women (Brown 2014;Lemi and Brown 2019;Sims, Pirtle, and Johnson-Arnold 2019) in ways that are not perceived by CMPS survey respondents as discriminatory. Another possibility is that lighter skin may be associated with a higher social status in the mind of survey respondents (Hunter 2007); thus, selecting a lighter shade on a skin-tone question reflects how people think of themselves socially.…”

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The Political Implications of Colorism Are Gendered

Lemi

Brown

2020

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The Political Implications of Colorism Are Gendered

Lemi

Brown

2020

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“…The question that we believe is most important is, how can I (or “we” if this is a collective question) use a BIPOC centered approach to engage with the idea of the presentation of self? That might include Gonzales’ ( 2020 ) look at how Black and Latinx women struggle with the presentation of self in activism using Women of Color Feminist and Queer perspectives, or Sims et al’s ( 2019 ) study of how hair presentation affects racial perceptions by others. These works would lend themselves to a discussion of the ways in which race and gender shape our presentation of self, reinterpretation of self, and perception by others.…”

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Theory on the other Side of the Veil: Reckoning with Legacies of Anti-Blackness and Teaching in Social Theory

Fillingim

Rucks-Ahidiana

2021

Am Soc

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Classical Theory courses in the U.S. present a history of our discipline grounded in the works of Durkheim, Marx, and Weber, defining “classic” by space and time, giving pre-World War II Europe credit for creating the foundation of contemporary sociology. While past critiques of this canon have argued for expanding the geographic bounds outside of Europe, these efforts still ground the origins of social theory in a time period of racial exclusion and segregation. We argue for a reckoning with the racial origins of the discipline in the United States in anti-Blackness and the legacies of racial exclusions. We must grapple with the histories of exclusion and segregation that continue to impact the discipline’s present and futures. In this paper, we argue that the teaching of sociology’s history should be through the “Foundations of Social Theory,” a broad approach to teaching that rejects the ideas of both “classics” and a “canon.” This approach roots theory in our history through core issues of study (e.g., the origins and consequences of capitalism) and directly addresses past racial and gendered exclusions by centering BIPOC intellectual contributions across time. By lifting the time and space restrictions, we open the doors to including voices omitted and repressed due to the exclusion of BIPOC people, especially Black women, from higher education in the U.S. This approach acknowledges the diverse histories and voices in our classrooms and profession, and highlights the relevance of social theory for our future.

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“…10 A nod to Beyoncé Knowles who, in her song "Formation" on her Lemonade album, tells us women to get in formation and twirl on our haters. 11 My recent work (Sims, Pirtle, and Johnson-Arnold 2019) shows how curly/natural hair is more likely to be perceived as Black. Current events show how educational institutions use professional codes to discrimination against curly/natural hairstyles, often as a way to disguise racial discrimination (Griffith 2019).…”

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We, too, are academia: Demanding a seat at the table

Pirtle

2021

Feminist Anthropology

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This personal, reflexive, ethnographic essay is written in the tradition of Black feminist anthropological and sociological women thinkers who call-to-the-table 1 educational systems and academic disciplines to name experiences and harms, center marginalized voices, and offer visions for transformation. I share two tales about having, or not, a seat at the table in the figurative and literal sense. I incorporate Langston Hughes's poem, I, Too, an exposé about the irony of Black erasure in the America, to emphasize my statement about Black women's (in)visibility in academia. 2 Throughout my essay, I offer endnotes to substantiate claims about Black women's rightful, yet oftentimes undervalued and sometimes abused, place in academia. 3 I argue that we must demand a seat at academia's decision-making tables until a transformed space is actualized-because we, too, are academia.

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Doing hair, doing race: the influence of hairstyle on racial perception across the US

Cited by 42 publications

References 18 publications

The Political Implications of Colorism Are Gendered

The Political Implications of Colorism Are Gendered

Theory on the other Side of the Veil: Reckoning with Legacies of Anti-Blackness and Teaching in Social Theory

We, too, are academia: Demanding a seat at the table

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