Estética negra: Um estudo contemporâneo sobre o cabelo da mulher negra na Serra do Cajueiro - Florânia RN

Abstract

This study aims to understand from oral accounts as a group of black women living in the rural community of Serra do Cajueiro municipality of Florânia, RN, live in the pres ent day with her hair, identifying everyday practices that acquire different meanings for them when resolved to arrest them, smooth them, or simply take care of curls that are a reflection of how they see your hair type or how they relate to it. It can be seen in some reports, negative interiorizações about the very black aesthetic, because racist attitudes, which ultimately affect who suffered the experience enough to make her deny her ethnic group to take another handsome model more accepted and more " be autiful "socially. There are also women who say they are happy with your hair type, and manipulate it in order to appreciate the uniqueness of it. Research shows us that writing about the resident black women in that space, and its aesthetic currently hair has been a challenge, in that for answers, one needs a lot of sensitivity in capturing both in their voices, as in his silence, traces of racism become naturalized, and what is more worrying, stealthy, invisible or sometimes unknown by those characters in a plot little explored, in rural areas, which begins its process of opening the subject of discussion by the Academy.