Part IV: Is It Privilege?
In competitive sports we have also often seen two cornrows or ‘french braids’ on the heads of female athletes such as Brooke Raboutou. Is it appropriation?
To answer this question, I am going to put myself up as an example. As a person with mixed African and white heritage I am an example of questioning. I am of light skin with S curly type hair which can be coaxed into curls with the right products but can also puff up like Sister Act. I can be perceived as being white from skin color (as someone once told me they thought I was a white lady with a tan) and hair (when I press/relax it). Can someone like me sport African based hairstyles?…
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