From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we get it done... how we have to focus on it... the questions we have to answer about it... and so forth.
Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional hum… - Melissa Harris-Perry
Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional hum…
- Melissa Harris-Perry
As we watch Republican candidates like Scott Walker and Rick Perry and Bobby Jindal and George Pataki, and even Jeb Bush and Chris Christie, guys who… - Melissa Harris-Perry
As we watch Republican candidates like Scott Walker and Rick Perry and Bobby Jindal and George Pataki, and even Jeb Bush and Chris Christie, guys who…
Donald Trump has changed the rule and so have the stations and the media coverage. - Melissa Harris-Perry
Donald Trump has changed the rule and so have the stations and the media coverage.
From 2001 to 2012 at least 6,410 women were murdered by an intimate partner using a gun. That`s more than the number of U.S. troops killed in action … - Melissa Harris-Perry
From 2001 to 2012 at least 6,410 women were murdered by an intimate partner using a gun. That`s more than the number of U.S. troops killed in action …
Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests. - Melissa Harris-Perry
Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.
I do think that we have to be careful not to assume that getting a perm or wearing a blonde wig is a desire for whiteness. It may or may not be. List… - Melissa Harris-Perry
I do think that we have to be careful not to assume that getting a perm or wearing a blonde wig is a desire for whiteness. It may or may not be. List…
We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and tot… - Melissa Harris-Perry
We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and tot…
So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize… - Melissa Harris-Perry
So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize…
Drink lots of water, and nap. I've made some really big messes along the way, whether on the academic side or on the media side. It hasn't been a str… - Melissa Harris-Perry
Drink lots of water, and nap. I've made some really big messes along the way, whether on the academic side or on the media side. It hasn't been a str…
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