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DESCRIPTION:The Department of Anthropology invites the campus community and the public to attend our Anthropology Speaker Series talk "Pajones\, Afros\, and Rizos: Dominican Women\, Afro-Dominicanidad\, and the Global Natural Hair Movement" with Dr. Kimberly Eison Simmons\, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina. The normalization of straightened hair has deep ideological roots in the Dominican Republic and has shaped local hairstyles\, beauty practices\, and the very idea of what is socially acceptable. This is changing\, however\, as the natural hair movement gains momentum in the Dominican Republic. Natural hair represents a significant and symbolic shift reflecting changing views of the politics of hair as well as Afro-Dominican identity where hair straightening has served as a symbolic erasure of African ancestry. Natural hair has become a sign of beauty\, resistance\, and personal expression of Afro-Dominicanidad. This presentation explores the efforts of the Miss Rizos network - spanning the Dominican Republic and the United States - to understand how Dominican women\, in the Dominican Republic and abroad\, organize around and embrace natural hair as an expression of Blackness and belonging to both the Dominican diaspora and larger African diaspora.\nLunch will be provided.\n\nhttps://today.coloradocollege.edu/events/6374
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LOCATION:Barnes Science 407
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SUMMARY:Pajones\, Afros\, and Rizos: Anthropology Speaker Series
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