How does hair discrimination affect young black girls?
I’m interested in doing this topic because I have experienced feelings of hatred towards my hair, and I still battle with loving it today. From a young age black girls are molded into thinking their hair is too nappy or too short and that they would be prettier if they had ‘good’ hair. This kind of thinking doesn’t just just come from other races, but it also comes within the black community itself. This rhetoric of thick and tight curls being considered ‘nappy’ causes many black girls to turn to straight hair or wigs with really loose curls because they feel prettier that way. Many black women wear wigs because it allows them to express themselves through hair and frequently have a new ‘do.’ However, a lot of other black women wear wigs to hide their natural hair. I have grown to have a decent relationship with my natural hair, but I’m not completely comfortable with it yet. I don’t want people to lower my value because of the way my hair is styled. All in all, I want to focus on this question because not enough people talk about the permanent damage done to black women when being bullied or belittled because of their hair.
https://hbr.org/2023/05/how-hair-discrimination-affects-black-women-at-work
