{"id":36481,"date":"2014-05-22T00:19:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T00:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36481"},"modified":"2016-01-22T17:40:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T17:40:06","slug":"but-your-hair-is-so-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36481","title":{"rendered":"But your hair is so beautiful…"},"content":{"rendered":"

But your hair is so beautiful…<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Black Women of Brazil<\/a>
\n2014-05-08<\/p>\n

Stephanie Paes<\/strong> (orginally published on 2013-06-12 as “Mas seu cabelo \u00e9 t\u00e3o bonito…<\/a>” in Falando sem permiss\u00e3o<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n

I know that it is. And only I understand the time I needed to take account of this (1).<\/p>\n

My hair is crespo<\/em><\/a> (curly\/kinky). It has gone through several phases (natural and later chemical changes), but it never stopped being crespo<\/em>. When I was a kid it had little curls and was huge, until the sad night in which my mother, tired after a day of work and not managing to detangle my ends, silently took scissors and cut my curls without telling me. After that my hair started to change, I don\u2019t know if it was because of cutting it or because hormonal influences, but it never ceased to be what it is: Crespo<\/em>…<\/p>\n

…What I hear now, with one or another variation is the following sentence: \u201cYour hair is so beautiful! It\u2019s a little cacheadinho<\/em> (curly), not those ugly naps.\u201d<\/p>\n

What is the problem with this sentence?<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Slandering a phenotypic characteristic of my race, you are slandering me. It doesn\u2019t matter if you think that because my hair has a looser curl that it automatically ceases to be crespo<\/em>. In fact, even if my hair was naturally straight, I don\u2019t cease being black, and you would still be slandering me.<\/li>\n
  2. By exalting a feature that makes clear my miscegenation<\/a> (racial mixture) and not allowing the black phenotype to be manifested completely, you are valuing my embranquecimento<\/em> (white attributes). I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s bad to have a non-black feature, I\u2019m saying that when you use it to say that my hair is better than another more genuinely kinky, you\u2019re being racist…<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    But your hair is so beautiful… Black Women of Brazil 2014-05-08 Stephanie Paes (orginally published on 2013-06-12 as “Mas seu cabelo \u00e9 t\u00e3o bonito…” in Falando sem permiss\u00e3o) I know that it is. And only I understand the time I needed to take account of this (1). My hair is crespo (curly\/kinky). It has gone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,83,21,125,8],"tags":[17123,17339,17340],"class_list":["post-36481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","tag-black-women-of-brazil","tag-falando-sem-permissao","tag-stephanie-paes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45270,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36481\/revisions\/45270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}