Brace Joanovich Publishers, 1992. Pages: 9-53, 24- 40, 41 ?61, 62 ? 80,
81 ? 93, 135 ? 162. Call number: SC185.625 .R 78 1992
The ?Color Complex? is a book that brings blacks and the differences of color to light. The book features reflections on the famous director Spike Lee?s movie ?School Daze?. The book discusses if blacks think that the color complexities of the past have vanished, then Spike Lee would not be shunned for putting blacks “dirty laundry? in the media. The source also compares and describes the media?s images of beauty among the black race. The book reflects the ratio of dark skin women to light skin women in black music videos and black movies. This book also shares the schools, organizations, and living areas that were designated for the black elite. This was a very interesting book and I will defiantly use this as one of the main sources in my paper. The Color Complex reveals black and light complexions as well as the ?pride? that each complexion hold.
help me with my visuals in my presentation and my paper
Hare, Nathan. The Black Anglo-Saxons. New York: Macmillan Company, 1965. Pages
11-31. Call number: SC E 185.86 .H3 1970
The book, The Black Anglo ? Saxons, reflected how now it is fashionable to be proud about being black. The black hair and clothing that blacks once hid behind and tried to avoid are now becoming more prevalent. The book describes black power as the source of this change. Now the once boasting light skin blacks won?t even admit that they have white blood running through their veins. Dr. Nathan Hare claims that the black middle-class, otherwise known as the ?black elite?, were not only miseducated but they were misguided and deceived by the whites that forced them to assimilate away from their African culture. The ?black elite? disavowed and ignored their ?other? brothers and sisters. This source will be good for my research paper because it hits on the key points I am discussing: how the white race provided blacks with the ignorance that with held the color complex.
Hooks, Bell. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston, MA: South End Press,
1992. Pages: 9 ? 20. Call number: SCE 185.86. H734 1992.
In Bell Hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation, she remembers a discussion she once had with some students in her English class. Bell Hooks first refers to a story about how a black woman named Clare pretended she was white her whole life because she was so light. The black woman married a white man but was unhappy with her life because she had never been her true self. Hooks tells her class that Clare had to pretend she was white because she was living in a white supremacist culture. When white people discovered that Clare was black she was murdered. Hooks describes to her mostly black populated class that just as whites were taught to devalue blackness and overvalue whiteness black people of every shade were also taught the same. Hooks explains that if blacks were taught to love blackness self ? segregation would vanish. This is an excellent source for my paper because it not only gives solutions to end self ? segregation, but it also gives an example (Clare) I could use in my research paper.
Jewell, Sue. From Mammy to Miss: Cultural Images and the Shaping of Us Social
Policy. New York: Routledge and Chapman Hall Inc, 1993. Pages: 1-14, 15-34
Call number: E 185.86 .J48 1992.
Sue Jewell talks about the changing images of beauty black women have under gone. First the book introduces the typical stereotypical images black women were perceived as. The dark face, the big body, big lips, and the ignorant and surprised look featured on the ?mammies? face. The book tells how black women were never looked as a source of beauty until recently. The difference is that it is not the dark woman who is featured as beautiful, but the light women with the ?good hair?. The book foreshadows the black women transformation into a sexual deity of light skin and long hair, this being the new ultimate desire and wish for ex ? mammy?s. The new light women are the dark black women?s dream.
Russell, and Wilson M. Divided Sisters. New York: Anchor Books Doubleday, 1996.
Pages: 71-110. Call number: SCE 185.86 .W555 1996.
Divided Sisters is a book that acknowledges the difference between the black women, the lighter women, and the white women. From a historical angle the book talks about black women and their texture and style of hair that was linked to skin color. The mulatto or the elite middle class that was influenced by the white society set black women?s standard of beauty. Because white people?s influence was so strong darker skin blacks thought that it was a ?gift? to have the long hair and the light skin because these specific individuals lives were easier because they were accepted and looked up to. The book entails examples of how girls with kinky hair limited their activities because they did not want the public to see the true texture of their hair. Furthermore, the book shares how when young black girls could shed their hair of coils and apply the newly introduced perm it was like turning the ?ugly duckling? into a ?swan?. The book also reflected that the differences of skin color did not just happen after the Emancipation Proclamation but also in Africa. Some tribes associated femininity, youth, and virginity with light skin and long hair.