Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Professor Raymond
URWT 1104
20 February 2017
Final Proposal
In the mid 1900 after the civil rights act of 1965 opportunities began to open for the black
communities such as jobs and schooling. Although many store owners and managers, and
schools were skeptical, they began to allow blacks to play a role in schools and the work force.
With these changing opportunities, came with a change in the sacrifices black women had to
make. Women of color were forced to take on the typical "American appearance," which were
styles approved by the white community. These actions included Perming of hair, and the
assimilation to how whites dressed during this time period. If they didnt appear like this then
they would not be able to have a job white people back, then did not want women with color
American styles and tradition that their community was forced to abandoned. Practices of natural
hair and clothing are emerging once again. However, there seems to be a catch. The things that
were once "unprofessional" have been adopted as a trend in other communities. Most of the
African American women now have natural hair, perm hair is not really a trend anymore so it
slowly reversed as the time went on. This idea of traditions being adopted by other communities
that chastised the same community for that reason is known as cultural appropriation. Our
project plan is to bring light to the Afrocentric movement and why it was so important then as it
is now. Along with the reason why the black community today has gone back to its roots.
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mostly limited to the United States that focuses on the history of black Africans or (Americans).
For the past 10 years, the African-American community has begun to take a stand for their rights
with protest, unnecessary violence, messages and small movement throughout their communities
to be heard. They've seen pain inflicted on their fellow communities and no longer desire to be
silent with the way were supposed to present ourselves. The purpose of this project is to give
"outsiders an inside perspective." Admittedly, it's quite difficult to look at thing from different
perspectives, however we believe that our project can bring clarity to what it means to be
Afrocentric.
Being that the Afrocentric movement is so broad, we decided to focus on five major
areas. Fashion from dresses to pants, black lives matter, natural hair and its significance, and
music. Each member of the group will tackle a specific topic and go in depth to eliminate any
preconceived notions that come with such topics. We as African-American women simply wish
to inform others who dont understand. In doing this project we hope to enlightening people on
what they think they know and what is the truth. To make this all happen we plan to meet up
every Wednesday evening to discuss the topics we research and pick out what important want we
plan to place in our presentation. In our demonstration, we plan on dressing like the black
women did during this time period but also examples of what whites preferred us to look like.
We will describe the music and give examples, explain the Black Lives Matter (BLM), and clear
up any stereotypes.
In conclusion, in this message we wish to portray that regardless of how far African-
Americans have come since the civil rights movement, there is still work to be done. People still
believe that have big natural hair is not the style and is not a professional appearance. I truly
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believe that we, as a country, could do better at understanding the purpose of black women or
any women at that having natural hair, its a part of our culture and that is the way we embrace it,
Not with just our hair but our clothes, and music. "The problem with today's generation is that
we listen to reply instead of understand." Once we establish the truth about the state of minorities