Major Findings:
Slave owners required slaves to hide their hair under scarves or straighten their hair with an iron so as not to be offensive to white people. This imposition of culture was eventually accepted and passed along over the generations.
During adolescence, prejudice among blacks most commonly happens and takes the most negative effect on the black child. These children take these experiences and stereotypes and evolve into adults with skewed color views of their own community. This in turn allows them to be easily manipulated by society and the media, in so they develop warped views on the “ideal” black beauty.
Dark-skinned people view marriage or reproduction with a light-skinned person as an accomplishment. Breeding with someone of a lighter complexion is seen as a step up on the social ladder (Garrod). On the other hand, a light-skinned black with a dark-skinned black is viewed as a downgrade and an attempt to get back to one’s “roots” …show more content…
Even children have to face the prejudice of being black and it has a huge negative effect on them and how they view themselves and others in the black community, as they get older.
Having a child by someone of a different race or with a lighter complexion is most desirable in the African American community. It is looked at as an accomplishment and is what most blacks aim
Slave owners required slaves to hide their hair under scarves or straighten their hair with an iron so as not to be offensive to white people. This imposition of culture was eventually accepted and passed along over the generations.
During adolescence, prejudice among blacks most commonly happens and takes the most negative effect on the black child. These children take these experiences and stereotypes and evolve into adults with skewed color views of their own community. This in turn allows them to be easily manipulated by society and the media, in so they develop warped views on the “ideal” black beauty.
Dark-skinned people view marriage or reproduction with a light-skinned person as an accomplishment. Breeding with someone of a lighter complexion is seen as a step up on the social ladder (Garrod). On the other hand, a light-skinned black with a dark-skinned black is viewed as a downgrade and an attempt to get back to one’s “roots” …show more content…
Even children have to face the prejudice of being black and it has a huge negative effect on them and how they view themselves and others in the black community, as they get older.
Having a child by someone of a different race or with a lighter complexion is most desirable in the African American community. It is looked at as an accomplishment and is what most blacks aim