AACC – Black History Month: Nappily Ever After, Feature Film
February 28, 2019
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location
African American Cultural Center, 830 S Halsted St. 207 Addams Hall
Address
Chicago, IL 60607
Cost
Free
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Nappily Ever After
The African American Cultural Center will explore the fascinating history of black hair. Black hair is an expressive medium, one integrally linked to the economics, politics, and aesthetics of black life in the diaspora. Programming will probe the shifting politics of black hair and look closely at the ways black folks have cultivated hair as a source of respectability, identity, and community, and as a tool of resistance to dominant beauty ideals. We will also examine how the aesthetics of hair reflects ongoing debates about femininity, masculinity, and sexuality within black communities. The African American Cultural Center's Black History Month Program is the first phase in the development of an exhibition on black hair and black culture to be mounted during the 2019 - 20 academic year.
This feature film follows one black woman's hair crisis and in the process reveals the ways that a black woman's hair journey can lead o self-awareness and personal growth.
Date posted
Jan 30, 2019
Date updated
Feb 7, 2019