Within the workforce over the past few years there has been a lot of controversy between black women and their hair. A countless number of women have been dismissed from their jobs due to what the jobs consider acceptable. The media has turned black hair into something that is to be shunned. Media Outlook As a young black girl growing up watching Disney movies I always paid attention to the color of the princesses’ skin and the way their hair was styled. Out of all the princesses that Disney had there was never one that represented the African American community. There were princesses to represent the Asian community, Middle Eastern, Native American, and of course Caucasian community. Then in 2009 Disney released “The
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More women have started to embrace their natural hair. The media has stopped shunning ethnic hair and has come together to promoted it. More natural hair commercials have started to air on television. Even the actresses are being prompted to wear their own hair and not extensions. Although the Natural Movement is going on currently there are still many people that are still not accepting it.(CNN Cable News Network “C” ) For example recently at Pretoria High School in South Africa young girls were being forced to chemically straighten their hair in order to attend the institution. So many of the girls started to protest against the school saying that “it was unfair” and they were being discriminated against. Twelve year old Vanessa Van Dyke was expelled from her school. (Huffington Post “D”) She was given two choices, either cut her natural hair or be expelled and she chose not to cut it. That story made national headlines. Those are just two circumstances but there have been countless reports of students being expelled from schools because they had “ethnic hair “or their hair was considered a “distraction” towards the other students in the
More women have started to embrace their natural hair. The media has stopped shunning ethnic hair and has come together to promoted it. More natural hair commercials have started to air on television. Even the actresses are being prompted to wear their own hair and not extensions. Although the Natural Movement is going on currently there are still many people that are still not accepting it.(CNN Cable News Network “C” ) For example recently at Pretoria High School in South Africa young girls were being forced to chemically straighten their hair in order to attend the institution. So many of the girls started to protest against the school saying that “it was unfair” and they were being discriminated against. Twelve year old Vanessa Van Dyke was expelled from her school. (Huffington Post “D”) She was given two choices, either cut her natural hair or be expelled and she chose not to cut it. That story made national headlines. Those are just two circumstances but there have been countless reports of students being expelled from schools because they had “ethnic hair “or their hair was considered a “distraction” towards the other students in the