Often hair is the way we are differentiated in this culture. To me the decision to straighten your hair is deeply political.
I think television is one of the last real bastions of the white beauty standard, but still in many industries the workers can be replaced by someone… - Jami Floyd
I think television is one of the last real bastions of the white beauty standard, but still in many industries the workers can be replaced by someone…
- Jami Floyd
My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not straighten it. - Jami Floyd
My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not straighten it.
I've done lots of pieces on self-esteem and hair. There's a desire to conform, but if the encouragement to be yourself is there from loved ones, you'… - Jami Floyd
I've done lots of pieces on self-esteem and hair. There's a desire to conform, but if the encouragement to be yourself is there from loved ones, you'…
My mother's white, and she didn't know how to do my hair, so I had something that I always call white-mama hair. - Jami Floyd
My mother's white, and she didn't know how to do my hair, so I had something that I always call white-mama hair.
Often hair is the way we are differentiated in this culture. To me the decision to straighten your hair is deeply political. - Jami Floyd
When I have my Afro and walk down the street, there's no doubt that I'm black. With this [straightened] hair, if I talk about being black on air, vie… - Jami Floyd
When I have my Afro and walk down the street, there's no doubt that I'm black. With this [straightened] hair, if I talk about being black on air, vie…
For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us. - Jami Floyd
For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.
There came a point when I wanted to do television, and I didn't think the Afro was going to play, so I made a very difficult choice - to straighten m… - Jami Floyd
There came a point when I wanted to do television, and I didn't think the Afro was going to play, so I made a very difficult choice - to straighten m…
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