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Afrocentric Movement Uwrt New
Afrocentric Movement Uwrt New
Professor Raymond
URWT 1104
20 February 2017
Final Proposal
In the mid 1900 after the civil rights act of 1965 opportunities began to open for the black
communities such as jobs and schooling. Although many store owners and managers, and
schools were skeptical, they began to allow blacks to play a role in schools and the work force.
With these changing opportunities, came a change in the sacrifices black women had to make.
Women of color were forced to take on the typical "American appearance," which were styles
approved by the white community. These actions included Perming of hair, and the assimilation
to how whites dressed during this time period. If they didnt appear like this then they would not
be able to have a job white people back, then did not want women with color working with big
American styles and tradition that their community was forced to abandoned. Practices of natural
hair and clothing are emerging once again. However, there seems to be a catch. The things that
were once "unprofessional" have been adopted as a trend in other communities. Most of the
African American women now have natural hair, perm hair is not really a trend anymore so it
slowly reversed as the time went on. This idea of traditions being adopted by other communities
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that chastised the same community for that reason is known as cultural appropriation. Since most
of our project is based on history, we will be using technologies such as the internet and the
library to understand the history of where we came from as well as research the issues that are
still prominent today. The types of modes we will be using in our project include linguistic, aural
and visual. Our project plan is to bring light to the Afrocentric movement and why it is important
then as it is now. Along with the reason why the black community today has gone back to its
roots.
mostly limited to the United States that focuses on the history of African Americans. For the past
10 years, the African-American community has begun to take a stand for their rights with protest,
unnecessary violence, messages and small movement throughout their communities to be heard.
They've seen pain inflicted on their fellow communities and no longer desire to be silent with the
way were supposed to present ourselves. The purpose of this project is to give "outsiders an
inside perspective." Admittedly, it's quite difficult to look at thing from different perspectives,
however we believe that our project can bring clarity to what it means to be Afrocentric.
Being that the Afrocentric movement is so broad, we decided to focus on five major
areas. Fashion from dresses to pants, black lives matter, natural hair and its significance, and
music. Each member of the group will tackle a specific topic and go in depth to eliminate any
preconceived notions that come with such topics. We as African-American women simply wish
to inform others who dont understand. In doing this project we hope to enlightening people on
what they think they know and what is the truth. To make this all happen we plan to meet up
every Sunday evening to discuss the topics we research and pick out what important want we
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plan to place in our presentation. For the group project each of us focus on different themes.
Leah will focus on natural hair, Tajah will research music and Addie will focus on Clothing.
Each of us will go in depth on some of the controversies that present themselves in the following
themes. In our demonstration, we plan on dressing like the black women did during this time
period but also examples of what whites preferred us to look like. This demonstration will be a
part of our visual mode. We will describe the music and give examples, explain the Black Lives
In conclusion, in this message we wish to portray that regardless of how far African-
Americans have come since the civil rights movement, there is still work to be done. People still
believe that have big natural hair is not the style and is not a professional appearance. I truly
believe that we, as a country, could do better at understanding the purpose of black women or
any women at that having natural hair, its a part of our culture and that is the way we embrace it,
Not with just our hair but our clothes, and music. "The problem with today's generation is that
we listen to reply instead of understand." Once we establish the truth about the state of minorities