http://www.bazmakaz.com/clip/2007/05/08/racism-and-hair_clip-41/ Critical Literacy In Practice Podcast - An on demand internet broadcast on critical literacy as it is practiced and talked about in different spaces and places around the globe. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:16:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.bazmakaz.com/clip/2007/05/08/racism-and-hair_clip-41/comment-page-1/#comment-8853 Ashley Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:11:38 +0000 http://www.bazmakaz.com/clip/?p=140#comment-8853 This episode struck me because I see my high school students judging each others’ hair (and by extension judging each other) everyday at school. They also like to talk about mine and make judgments about me because my hair is “good;” it offends me on a daily basis. It is sad that high school students—not young children, like the girl who is mentioned in the episode—continue to judge each others’ hair. This episode’s placement of “hairism” in a historical context was particularly interesting. It is ironic to me that even though so many of my students seem to ascribe to a resurgence of the black pride movement, they fail to understand that “people are not their hair.” I hope that children read books like “Nappy” by Shareece Carney Noon (?) and Natasha Tarpley’s “I Love My Hair”, and older students (and adults) listen to (and accept the words of) India Arie’s “I Am Not My Hair.” This episode struck me because I see my high school students judging each others’ hair (and by extension judging each other) everyday at school. They also like to talk about mine and make judgments about me because my hair is “good;” it offends me on a daily basis. It is sad that high school students—not young children, like the girl who is mentioned in the episode—continue to judge each others’ hair. This episode’s placement of “hairism” in a historical context was particularly interesting. It is ironic to me that even though so many of my students seem to ascribe to a resurgence of the black pride movement, they fail to understand that “people are not their hair.” I hope that children read books like “Nappy” by Shareece Carney Noon (?) and Natasha Tarpley’s “I Love My Hair”, and older students (and adults) listen to (and accept the words of) India Arie’s “I Am Not My Hair.”

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