Children's Concentration Camps: Baby Jails In The United States- AGAIN! - Article Excerpt & Comments About Trump's Atrocious Immigration Policy Of Forcible Separating Children From Their Parents

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post provides a Daily Kos article excerpt and selected comments about Trump's atrocious immigration policy with a special focus on how this policy of separating children from their parents has happened before in the United States to Native Americans and to some other children of Color.

The content of this post is presented for historical, socio-cultural, and political purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to all those who are working to end this atrocious, inhumane policy.
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For more information about this subject, click https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tender-age-shelters-trump-border-family-separations_us_5b29d2d0e4b05d6c16c8c122
"Trump Administration Holding Babies And Toddlers In Multiple ‘Tender Age’ Shelters: AP

There are three shelters running in South Texas, with a fourth one planned for Houston, the report said."
By Dominique Mosbergen, 06/20/2018 01:04 am ET.
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UPDATE: June 22, 2018 11:04 PM- I added the label "race and racism" to this and other pancocojams posts about Trump's policy of separating immigrant children from their parents/caretakers. I've done so to highlight that I and many others believe that these children's race/ethnicity is one of the significant factors of this policy.

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ARTICLE EXCERPT AND COMMENTS ABOUT THIS SUBJECT
From
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/19/1773218/-Gov-t-s-separation-of-immigrant-children-from-their-parents-revives-deep-pain-among-American-Indians Gov't's separation of immigrant children from their parents revives deep pain among American Indians
Meteor Blades, Daily Kos Staff
Tuesday June 19, 2018 · 12:23 PM EDT
..."Nobody with a heart can listen to the wails of the caged children of undocumented immigrants who have been separated from their parents without sprouting some tears of their own. Which is why in the past couple of weeks we’ve had reconfirmed for us that there are heartless people in charge of the nation’s immigration machinery. In all the rancid policies imposed so far by the Trump regime, none matches this one for pure evil.

This is not the first time children in the United States have been forcibly separated from their parents. Our nation has a history of it. This was done to hundreds of thousands of slave children whose parents or themselves were sold to new, often distant owners. It happened to tens of thousands of American Indian children who were snatched from their parents and forced to attend boarding schools where they were abused and their heritage denigrated and desecrated.

In the words of the founder of the most famous such schools, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, these institutions had as their primary purpose to “kill the Indian, and save the man.” In other words, to engage in a form of ethnic cleansing, a forced acculturation that left behind the wholesale slaughter of the previous era, but was as lethal at destroying culture, religion, and language as any massacre or scalp bounty. They dared call it civilizing.

But, in fact, while the mission was supposedly to save the Indian without killing the person, hundreds of Indian children died at these schools with188 buried at Carlisle alone. Others are known to have died soon after they were returned home after years away.

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About 100 government-run and government-funded boarding schools lasted from the 1870s, when the Army was still actively killing Indians physically, until the 1970s. A readable summary of some the horrors of those schools can be found here. https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/cultural-genocide-veiled-as-education-the-time-for-healing-is-now-vBOUQUlvUky9sxP6Ukg3BA/ "Cultural Genocide Veiled as Education—The Time for Healing Is Now" by Indian Country Today
Jun 22, 2014

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While most of the boarding schools have long been shuttered, and those that remain are very different than in the old days, hundreds of thousands of Indians today are personally affected by what happened in those schools even if they did not themselves attend boarding school.

In my case, it was my grandmother Simmalikee, who raised me until she died when I was nine, my mother being a young teen when I was born. When my grandmother was nine, she was shipped off to boarding school in South Carolina where everything was done to take away her language and culture for seven years. When she returned home to Florida in 1918, she vowed never again to speak English though she knew it perfectly well, sticking solely to Muscogee (Creek), one of the two Seminole languages.

Another boarding school abductee was the mother of my friend and colleague Neeta Lind, the Navajo who is Director of Community at Daily Kos. Her mother, the late Flora Sombrero, was taken at age five to the Mormon-run Tuba City Boarding School in the late 1920s. The attack on her culture began right in front of her parents at Inscription House on the Navajo Nation. The kidnappers cut off Flora’s traditional hair bun and threw it on the ground in front of them, placed her in the back of a pick-up with other children and drove away.

Her sister, who was also taken, ran away from the boarding school so often that they took away her shoes. So she ran away barefoot. They finally gave up. She was one of the lucky ones. On more than one occasion, indigenous children at some boarding schools in the United States and so-called residential schools in Canada ran away in winter and froze to death.

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My colleague Laura Clawson has noted today that the trauma of immigrant children now being separated from their parents by the government will last a lifetime*. Indeed, the psychological impact may very well be intergenerational, as it has been for countless American Indians.

While most of those immigrant children presumably will not be separated from their parents for years as many Native children were, the parallels are unsettling.

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"Tent cities are being built in Texas that Trump hopes will eventually house 4,000 children. 4,000 traumatized children, living in tents in the Texas heat. This outrageous policy needs to stop. I will always fight to keep families together. #EndFamilySeparation #nm01 #nmpolDeb Haaland added,"

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What’s happening to families at the border right now is a humanitarian crisis. Every parent who has ever held a child in their arms, every human being with a sense of compassion and decency, should be outraged.

1:20 PM - 18 Jun 2018


* https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/19/1773250/--The-earlier-they-re-out-the-better-Migrant-kids-face-lifelong-trauma-thanks-to-Trump?_=2018-06-19T07:15:39.742-07:00 'The earlier they’re out, the better': Migrant kids face lifelong trauma thanks to Trump
Laura Clawson, Daily Kos Staff, Tuesday June 19, 2018 · 10:15 AM EDT
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Selected comments, with numbers assigned for referencing purposes only
1. Neeta Lind June 19 · 12:29:42 PM
"I’ll never get over that photo at the top.

I’ll never get over what happened to my mother. Today’s news brings back the terrible pain of listening to my mom and her siblings talk about being kidnapped and held prisoners. My mom would cry EVERY time she remembered, even as an elderly woman. Multi-generational trauma.
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[photo caption] "This 1884 photo shows some of 10,000 or so Native children the Carlisle Indian Industrial School separated from their parents as part of a government policy designed to take away their Indian-ness by removing their hair, their language, their culture, and their religion."

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2. jennybravo reply to Neeta Lind June 19 · 05:04:40 PM
"Most people don’t understand that by being raised in boarding schools and rarely if ever seeing their own parents, many of the children did not learn to be parents themselves. Most people learn to parent by watching their own parents. Without that living example, traditional parenting skills may not be passed on. And when you take children away, many parents become depressed and lack a reason to improve their own lives. This is how these practices affect generation after generation of Native families."

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3. Neeta Lind reply to jennybravo June 19 · 11:15:27 PM
"Completely agree. I had a conversation with another person like me whose mother was captured and raised by the government. She said she always wondered why her mom never hugged her or was affectionate or lovingly parented her. As an adult she realized why. This is tragic and affects generations after."

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4. koNko reply to Neeta Lind June 19 · 11:48:08 PM
"This was also a common practice to emasculate and shame Chinese immigrants.

The City of San Francisco drafted a law, the Pigtail Ordinance, requiring that Chinese men arrested have their queues (pigtail braids) cut within an inch of their scalps. Although vetoed, the State of California passed a law and proliferated the practice until a Chinese immigrant, arrested for vagrancy, sued the sheriff for irreparable harm, and took it all the way to the Supreme Court, obtaining a ruling that the law violated the 14th Amendment.

Native Americans and Chinese share similar traditions and beliefs about their hair. In fact, I have often advised Western people not to touch or pet adult Chinese in an overly familiar way, as we find it an offensive overly intimate contact if not invited.1

I can imagine your mother’s distress at such a personal violation.

1 Three things my wife finds uncivilized and intolerable: bare feet on the floor, uninvited touching of her hair and a man touching her towels, chopsticks or rice bowl (typically Asian). Modern girl in other respects."

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5. Neeta Lind replyto koNko June 20 · 12:11:02 AM
"Our hair is our memory. To remember who we are. We are not to cut it all off."

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6. slowbutsure June 19 · 02:01:09 PM
"In the movie “Animal Proof Fence”, there was a scene of a priggish administrator played by Kenneth Branagh ripping Aboriginal children from their parents to go to boarding school for ‘their own good’. (Spoiler alert — the kids slipped away and returned home...)"

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Clark Nova reply to slowbutsure June 19 · 02:29:13 PM
"A true story and the last of those kids died just a week ago. BTW, it’s Rabbit Proof Fence."

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7. Meteor Blades reply to slowbutsure June 19 · 03:08:28 PM
Fantastic movie. I once labeled it “my favorite big-screen movie of American Indians”:

But that’s an Australian movie, you say? Yep. The best film of American Indians is a Down Under 2002 movie about aboriginals without a loin-cloth, smear of war paint or drop of firewater in sight. It’s the story of three young mixed-race girls who find their way home after being ripped away from their parents in 1931 by the government and trained to focus on their “white side” so they can become somebody’s servants. A few critics have complained that this based-on-a-true-story movie goes overboard in demonizing the main white character (Kenneth Branagh) and depicting most other whites of the era as deeply bigoted, morally uncourageous paternalists. What could the director have been thinking?

The American version of Rabbit-Proof Fence has been out there for the telling ever since Thomas Edison showed his “movie” Hopi Snake Dance at the Columbian World Exposition in Chicago in 1893 on the brand-new kinetoscope his staff had developed. It’s the story of how American Indian children were torn from their customs, religions, languages, tribes and parents by demons and paternalists who saw cultural genocide as the proper modern alternative to the centuries-old physical genocide that had become no longer an acceptable course of action. But of all the hundreds of movie Westerns depicting Indians, this story has failed to generate excitement among four or five generations of movie-makers. Instead, the Hollywood Indian has prevailed.

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8. elfling June 19 · 01:14:53 PM
"The picture of the rosaries taken from asylum seekers and migrants, to be tossed in the trash, how did we get here? How can this still be a thing?

Not to mention, their ID, their cellphones, their cash, and their children!!!

That children are being taken from their parents and apparently not even with any records of who goes with whom being kept???"
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Click https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-janitors-collection-of-things-confiscated-from-migrants-in-the-desert "A Janitor Preserves the Seized Belongings of Migrants"
By Peter C. BakerMarch 12, 2017 for the above mentioned article/photos of rosaries taken from asylum seekers and migrants.

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9. DragonflyInTheSun reply to elfling June 19 · 02:26:30 PM
"I don’t know how to stop it."

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10. TrueBlueMajority reply to DragonflyInTheSun June 19 · 06:26:46 PM
"yes you do

keep talking about it. to everyone.

keep connecting with like minded people who will reassure you you are not crazy.

keep the pressure on elected officials."

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11. Capuchos reply to DragonflyInTheSun June 19 · 01:38:13 PM
"According to John Sandweg, who served as acting director of ICE under the Obama administration from 2013-2014; that is a real possibility:

"You could easily end up in a situation where the gap between a parent's deportation and a child's deportation is years," Sandweg said.

As a result, parents may find themselves back in their home countries struggling to find their children. Many do not have access to legal counsel or understand the U.S. immigration or judicial systems.

Children who stay in the foster system for lengthy periods of time may become wards of the state and finally adopted.

"You could be creating thousands of immigrant orphans in the U.S. that one day could become eligible for citizenship when they are adopted," Sandweg explained.

Sandweg says he has seen permanent separation happen when a parent is deported without his or her child.

Immigration lawyers in the U.S. and Central America say many parent immigrants who have been deported are having a hard time locating their children. The Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy was announced in April.

Parents are given a paper slip written in English and Spanish that explains they have been charged with a crime for entering the United States illegally and will be separated from their child while they await their court hearing.
www.nbcnews.com/..."

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12. FJA reply to Capuchos June 19 · 02:50:04 PM
"This really messes with kids’ heads. Not just being taken away, but their sense of object constancy in relationships, identity formation. It’s a recipe for Borderline Personality Disorder down the road, which is no fun.

“Children who stay in the foster system for lengthy periods of time may become wards of the state and finally adopted.” Hundred percent — CPS or whomever will say it’s too traumatic for the child to change guardians again to go back to their parents."

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13. maregug DragonflyInTheSun June 19 · 02:50:17 PM
Not only these children, the largely CA kids now in the concentration camps, but a whole generation of NA and FN kids are in a similar position. This tweet* really hit home...the destruction of brown families is ongoing, whether they be asylum seekers, immigrants, indigenous, or black.
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NA= Native Americans [also known as American Indians]
FN= First Nation [Canadian referent for "Native American"/"American Indians"

* This tweet: Julie S. Lalonde
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"Canadians out here, horrified by ICE separating children at the US border but 🤷🏼‍♀️ that Canada has more Indigenous kids in foster care right now than there was in residential schools.

Cool, cool.

5:19 PM - 17 Jun 2018"

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14. Clark Nova June 19 · 03:02:07 PM
"Here in NM, children were still being stolen from Native families (by the BIA) up til the late ‘60’s (the 1960’s, not the 1860’s but you’d hardly know it). They were adopted by / sold to White families only and the Feds pocketed the profits."
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NM = [US state: New Mexico]

BIA= Bureau of Indian Affairs

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15. susan larson reply to Clark Nova June 19 · 05:02:59 PM
"Stopped in 1979. Some sick Howleys"

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16. ramara June 19 · 01:13:13 PM
"It’s still being done, with foster care agencies separating Indian children, and other minority chidren, from their families, and too often with Indian children, illegally from their culture."

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17. grumpelstillchen June 19 · 01:14:33 PM
As per my comment here*, both these “chapters” in US history are de facto acts of genocide according to the definition of said crime by the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

I do not, cannot, will not ever understand why the other member states of the UN have not gone after the US for these clear and unequivocal violations of UN Conventions as perpetrated against American Indians, African Americans, and other Black/Brown peoples in this country.

Now, with this administration most likely to withdraw from any and all alliances with other “civilized” nations, it’s probably too fucking late.

Over the past 20 years, I have learned not to expect a majority of my fellow “Americans” to agree with me on this or to take any action to stop it from happening, so it doesn’t surprise me that it has come to this. But I really expected more from the other so-called “civilized” nations."
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*https://www.dailykos.com/comments/1773305/70486912#comment_70486912

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18. proudliberal4life June 19 · 01:29:53 PM
"We are repeating a horrific historical pattern. This also used to happen with slavery, with families being broken up and sold off to the highest bidder.

This is why we fight. If we allow this to continue, what’s next?"

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19. proudliberal4life June 19 · 02:00:30 PM
"1936 germany"

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Good Hair & Bad Hair (Black Attitudes About Our Hair)

Edited by Azizi Powell

Update- 10/29/2016

"Having a bad hair day" means something different to Black females than it does to White females.

I believe that at one time or another most African Americans have accepted mainstream White society's highly positive valuation of long, naturally straight hair or long, naturally curly hair over any other types of hair textures.

When I was growing up in New Jersey in the 1950s no Black female even THOUGHT about wearing their hair in an afro. All the girls who I knew, including myself, wanted long, flowing hair. As part of our play acting, I recall my sisters and I wearing towels on our head, pretending it was hair, and moving our head from side to side, to mimic the hair flicking motions that we saw White women on television do.

It appears to me that in the United States very few Black girls wear their hair natural & closely cropped like that I've seen in videos of many young African girls. And very few Black girls under the age of 18 years old in my adopted hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania wear their hair in afros, or dreadlocks. If they did, I'm certain that they would be teased by other Black children for having "nappy hair" - even though most of those Black children doing that taunting didn't also have that textures of hair.* I wrote "textures" because there are different textures of hair that are referred to as nappy. "Kinky", "course", "frizzy", and "tightly curly" are other words for the same type of hair. Some Black people, including me, have more than one "grade of hair" (another way of saying hair texture), including portions of their hair that is much straighter than other portions. And speaking of grades of hair, if the textures of hair were really graded, most Black people would give nappy hair a failing grade.

*UPDATE (10/28/2016) The natural hair movement has become MUCH more popular for Black females and Black males in the United States since I published this post in February 2013.

Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/10/changing-attitudes-among-african.html Changing Attitudes Among African Americans About Natural Hair & About The Word "Nappy"- Part 1 for Part I of a four part pancocojams post about this subject. The other links to those posts will be included in each post in that series.

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As a testimony to the destructive nature of Black self-hatred that is caused by racism, when I was growing up in the 1950s most Black people called long, flowing, straight hair that White people had "good hair". "Bad hair" was tightly curled, nappy, kinky hair that many Black people had. These terms "good hair" and "bad hair" are STILL used today by many African Americans, although there is increasing pushback among Black people about those terms' negative connotations.

I have particular strong memories of how Black children I grew up with favored other girls who had "straight hair". Foremost in those memories are two biological sisters who lived in my neighborhood and attended school with me from elementary school through high school (in the 1950s to 1965). One of these sisters who I'll call Sharon was light skin with long straight brown hair. The other sister who I'll call Brenda had brown skin and long hair which had a somewhat curly/straight texture that probably didn't "need to be" further straightened with a hot comb - as hair straightening was done in those days. For the record, both of these girl's biological parents were Black, although that couple probably had some White and/or Native American ancestry.

I definitely recall the girls in our elementary school touching and "playing with" both of those girls' hair. All the students in our elementary school were Black. I don't recall ever joining other girls in playing with those sisters' hair girls, in part because they were real popular and I wasn't and in part because I was real shy, and didn't easily play with other children except my sisters. However, I definitely remember admiring both of those girl's hair and wishing that my tightly curled hair which was almost down to my shoulders had the same texture and the same length as either one of those sisters.

Although the girls in our school and our neighborhood played with or wanted to play with both of these girls' hair, without question, I remember that Sharon was the girl whose hair was the one most of the girls in our school & our neighborhood wanted to comb, and braid, and style. That was because her hair was "just like White peoples".

I also distinctly remember that when we were in high school Sharon either cut her hair or had her hair cut very short. (This was in the early 1960s when short hair wasn't a style). I also remember someone asking her why she had cut her hair off and I remember Sharon saying that she was tired of people always touching her hair. For whatever reason, Brenda left her hair long but it still seemed to me that still girls wanted to "play with" her sister's hair more than with Brenda's hair. When I learned the term "colorism" (discrimination and favoritism based on skin color http://racerelations.about.com/od/understandingrac1/a/What-Is-Colorism.htm ), I recognized that was why Black girls (and Black guys?) way back then favored light skinned Sharon over her brown skin sister Brenda.

Years passed, and from 2008 to 2010 I was a substitute teacher and an after-school program assistant in an elementary school with a student population that was 99.9% Black. During those years, despite the "Say It Loud, I'm Black And I'm Proud" Black cultural movement from the late 1960s on, usually light skinned Black girls with long straight hair seemed to me to be favored more than other Black girls. I'd often notice those Black girls touching and playing with the braids of those lighter skinned girls. And it often appeared to me that those girls got tired of other people "messin' with" their hair. This happened a number of times during free time after lunch. When I saw that a girl was bothered by other people wanting to re-braid her hair, I'd redirect that student, reminding her that she wasn't supposed to be "messing with" anyone else’s hair without her or his permission, and besides that, school isn’t a beauty parlor.

Several times when I was a substitute teacher in that school, I witnessed Black girls "playing with" their White teachers' hair. The teacher would be sitting at her desk, engaged in some activity or another, and the Black girl would come up to her and, without permission, start to play with that teacher's hair. I never saw those teacher tell those girls to stop. Given my subordinate role as a substitute teacher in those classrooms, I usually didn't say anything to those teachers in front of their (actually "our") students. However, sometimes I'd give the girls the eye or shake my head, signaling them to stop what they should stop what they were doing. I believe that these White women didn't "get" that those Black girls who were casually playing with their teachers' hair might have issues with their own hair. But, I admit that I didn't "school" those teachers on what I thought was going on.

I also saw Black girls playing with the hair of White university college students who volunteer in that school's after-school program. It's possible that this may have been the first time that those volunteers from various universities had ever been around Black people. I could see that some of those college students didn't like students "playing with" their hair, but they seemed reluctant (or scared) to say anything to those Black girls. In those after-school programs my position was higher than then those volunteers, and consequently I could directly tell the girls to stop playing with those volunteers hair and return to what they were supposed to be doing. I purposely didn't make this a racial issue in front of those university students, alhough I believed that it was indeed a racial issue. It bothered me to see those girls playing with the White college students's hair, and I know that I wasn't the only Black adult in that room that it bothered. But neither I nor anyone else ever sat those girls down when those college students weren't present and talked to them about why what they were doing bothered us. I admit that I didn't have the energy to talk about the subject of why Black people seem to favor "hair like White people's" over "hair like most Black people" - which is partly why I'm writing this blog post.

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AN EXCERPT FROM ONE ONLINE ARTICLE ON THIS SUBJECT [added Nov. 22, 2014]
From The power and politics of black hair by Guillaume Debr, Special to The Christian Science MonitorMarch 15, 2000
..."Up to 10 years ago, the word 'nappy' was an insult," says Pamela Ferrell, owner of Cornrows and Co., a salon in Washington, and author of four books on natural hair.

"Today ... there are slogans like 'I'm happy, I'm nappy,' that celebrate it.... We have embraced what was once used against us," she says...

Kenneth Jackson is a professor of history at Stanford University in California. In 1992 he was the first to teach a seminar, "Black Hair as Culture and History."

"Black hair has been making a tremendous comeback during this century," he says. "It reflects a new prominence and openness about black hair. The tabooed black hair is out, in full view."

Hairstyles reflect the history of American race relations. For a long time, the way blacks wore their hair reflected the dominant white culture. It had to be straightened, combed, or parted to mimic Western coiffures. Kinky texture was rejected...

It was not until the 1960s that wearing an Afro became a statement in support of black-power ideology.

The 1990s resurgence of natural hairstyles was part of a larger movement of blacks rediscovering their African roots. Most styles come from traditional African societies, but have lost their social function or religious meaning...

In America, the natural-hair care industry has been growing steadily since the mid-1980s, and today generates an estimated revenue of $300 million a year, according to the American Hairbraiders and Natural Hair Care Association."....
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That article makes the point that some Black people and non-Black people consider the afro and other natural hair styles to be a fashion statement only, while other Black people and non-Black people associate those hair styles with "street" culture and/or political (anti-establishment) statements. That article mentions the existence of policies that prohibit certain natural hairstyles, and lawsuits against those policies. In addition that article mentions that the "dreadlock" natural hairstyle has been adopted by some White people.

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Example #1: What Is Good Hair? - Tyra (Part 1)



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The Tyra Banks Show - ''African American women's hair'' (Recorded May 12, 2009, WWOR)

We're getting to the root of the African-American "good hair" phenomenon. Find out how hair impacts the community's culture and even self-esteem.

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Example #2: What Is Good Hair? - Tyra (Part 2)



Megami284, Uploaded on May 17, 2009

The Tyra Banks Show - ''African American women's hair'' (Recorded May 12, 2009, WWOR)
We're getting to the root of the African-American "good hair" phenomenon. Find out how hair impacts the community's culture and even self-esteem.
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Click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBoBR20n8S4 to watch Part 3 of this program.

Click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g13u0w2oP4 to watch Part 4 of this program.

Click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxQGXmEVw-4 to watch Part 5 of this program.

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Example #3: Natural Hair Styles for African American Women



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I hope you like It!

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Example #4: 4 HAIRSTYLES FOR SHORT/MEDIUM HAIR!



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It's time to head back to school now and some of you may be wondering what cute 'dos you can rock. This tutorial shows you how to get 4 cute looks! I incorporated the hairstyles many of y'all have requested. Leave any questions you may have in the comments below!...

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Example #5: Afro Sheen Ad 5



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I believe this commercial is from the mid 1970s.

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Example #6: Afro Sheen Ad 6



randimay21,Uploaded on Oct 22, 2010

"The hawk is out to get you!"

This is one of my favorite ads because of the Chicago reference :)

Chicago's wind is often called "The Hawk" or the "Windy City."
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I believe this commercial is from the mid 1970s.

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Example #7: India.Arie - I Am Not My Hair ft. Akon



Uploaded by IndiaArieVEVO on Jun 16, 2009

Music video by India.Arie performing I Am Not My Hair. (C) 2006 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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This video implores people not to judge others based on their hair styles, or (I believe it's also implied) their hair type (what I refer in this post to the "texture/s) of their hair).

Click http://www.lyricstop.com/i/iamnotmyhair-india.arie.html for this song's lyrics.

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RELATED LINKS
This serves as a companion post to Racial & Other Societal Implications Of Touching Black People's Hair http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/10/racial-societal-implications-of.html

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Also, click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-textured_hair
"Afro-textured hair is a term used to refer to the natural texture of Black African hair that has not been altered by hot combs, flat irons, or chemicals (through perming, relaxing, or straightening)"...
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Editor's Note: I'm including this link for its information & photographs. However, I want to note that the term "Afro-textured hair" isn't a term that I've ever heard or read used for "Black people's hair" in the USA.

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