{"id":44028,"date":"2015-11-18T21:18:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T21:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44028"},"modified":"2015-11-18T21:18:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T21:18:19","slug":"multiracial-girls-celebrate-their-hair-as-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44028","title":{"rendered":"Multiracial Girls Celebrate Their Hair as Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/womensenews.org\/story\/teen-voices\/151112\/multiracial-girls-celebrate-their-hair-heritage\" target=\"_blank\">Multiracial Girls Celebrate Their Hair as Heritage<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/womensenews.org\" target=\"_blank\">Women&#8217;s eNews<\/a><br \/>\n2015-11-12<\/p>\n<p><strong>Karly Smith<\/strong>, Teen Voices at Women&#8217;s eNews<br \/>\n<em>Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Specialty hair products that cater to girls with mixed-race hair are booming and YouTube videos offer lessons in cheap, DIY recipes. &#8220;I love my hair!&#8221; says one girl. &#8220;It adds its own personality because it can be so big and exotic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (WOMENSENEWS)&#8211;Sophia Johnson wasn&#8217;t always thrilled with the hair products she used to tame her long, loose, auburn curls. Some were too strong and oily. Others dried out the hair of the 15-year-old D.C. native.<\/p>\n<p>The commercials she saw on TV seemed to make products for straight, tameable hair while her biracial heritage limited her access to appropriate styling creams and conditioners.<\/p>\n<p>For Johnson, and the growing numbers of those under 18 who check more than one &#8220;race&#8221; box on their Census forms, beauty care products for multiracial women have been pouring onto the market in recent years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/womensenews.org\/story\/teen-voices\/151112\/multiracial-girls-celebrate-their-hair-heritage\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiracial Girls Celebrate Their Hair as Heritage Women&#8217;s eNews 2015-11-12 Karly Smith, Teen Voices at Women&#8217;s eNews Washington, D.C. Specialty hair products that cater to girls with mixed-race hair are booming and YouTube videos offer lessons in cheap, DIY recipes. &#8220;I love my hair!&#8221; says one girl. &#8220;It adds its own personality because it can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,20],"tags":[21910,21667],"class_list":["post-44028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-karly-smith","tag-womens-enews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44028","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=44028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44029,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44028\/revisions\/44029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}