When I read Tamara Winfrey Harris’s essay, “Nappy Love: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace The Kinks,” I feel as if she is delineating my hair. My hair is uncontrollable, thick, messy, and undesirable, just like Tamara Winfrey Harris’s hair. However, it wasn’t as easy for me to get to the point of saying “My hair is nappy. And I love it” Harris’s essay gives an explanation on how society’s pressure made her go through pain and in the end she realized to embrace her nappiness. When Harris
In this essay I will be researching and reflecting on the effects of a predominantly European/White beauty culture on minorities, specifically African American girls and women in America. Many of these women grow up within a popular culture that promotes cosmetics or fashion images of models that do not look like them or anyone in their communities. For years Black women were encouraged to manipulate their hair to conform or to meet society’s beauty standards. From an early age Black girls are bombarded
schoolers got off we went to the middle school and we started to go to our first hours. Everyone was still half asleep so I knew I wasn’t the only one. Math,Gym,Choir, and social studies went by in a blur.At luNch all of my friends were talking about an essay they had due the next day. i was half done but having serious anxiety about the other half. Then my friends started talking about what they had done that weekend but I was bored. I stared out the windows instead. We went to language and read a