Talk:GRSJ224 Racial and Gender Oppression of Black, African Women

Hello,

Your personal analysis of the topic brights great insight to Racial and Gender Oppression of Black, African women. I believe the conversations of colourism to be imperative when speaking about racial oppression across different societies today as it is something almost all women and men of colour deal with to some degree in North America. I think that the report could be strengthen if you were to elaborate on you mention of colourism and how it relates to beauty standards from a global and national standpoint. I am a women of Caribbean descent, and one think I always come back to when speaking about colourism is hair, and how black women to varying degrees are oppressed by having hair that does not align with western beauty standards. This is a subversive way in which women can be controlled by societies in North America as they are often told that their hair is unprofessional, etc. The power of hair and white privledge has come to the forefront especially in the legal system as states such as California are creating laws which protect women of colour from discrimination in employment on the basis of natural hair.

Great job again, and looking forward to seeing the final product!

Hi Lillian,

Thank you for your feedback and for sharing your own experience! Black women's hair and the western beauty standard is such a huge topic nowadays. I have taken your feedback into effect and elaborated a little more on how colourism relates to beauty standards.

Thank you for bringing this topic. I really like that you brought up the degree of blackness which helped me to understand how blackness from dark to light affect socio economic opportunities. To make this oppression against women clear, it might be good to compare how skin tone have positive or negative effects on between being a black woman and man. Overall. I like how you break down this issue and make intersectional approaches.

Good luck

Hi Shiono,

Thanks for your feedback! I agree with you I think it is a great idea to compare how skin colour affects black men and women. I would love to add more information on this sub-topic but a 1,000 words are limiting.

Hi Namomba,

I enjoyed reading your wiki post and the diverse perspective you have. However, I am not too sure if a personal perspective is a way to go if we are looking at a traditional wikipedia post. I do feel very informed reading your experience however I feel it that it might turn the post more into a blog post instead of a wiki post. What I would suggest is finding articles and research for similar experiences by other individuals who started to identify as an African migrant. This way, it keeps the tone of the topic in one direction with informative research to back it up.

I also want to say that I think it is very important that you included "Degrees of Blackness" into your topic as it is sometimes something that a lot of people don't seem to understand as an issue within racial oppression.

Hi Avneer,

Thank you so much for your feedback!