Making The Bluest Eye Relevant Today From Blacklivesmatter

Making The Bluest Eye Relevant Today From #Blacklivesmatter to Kenrick Lamar

Black is Beautiful Movement • 1960 s movement revolved around changing the perception of white standards of beauty • Took root under the Black Power Movement

Focus on Hair and Skin

Movement Changed by 1968 : • • • The term “black” instead of “Negro” Natural hairstyles Fake African names (Shaquanda, etc) African American Studies Afrocentrism Black History Month

AJASS • African Jazz-Arts Society and Studios • Began in South Bronx 1956, moved to Harlem 1961 • Known for employing fashion models of color

Steve Biko • Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) founder • South African writer • Anti-Apartheid activist

Malcolm X We must recapture our heritage and our identity if we are ever to liberate ourselves from the bonds of white supremacy. We must launch a cultural revolution to unbrainwash an entire people.

Stokely Carmichael We have to stop being ashamed of being black. A broad nose, a thick lip and nappy hair is us, and we are going to call that beautiful whether they like it or not. We are not going to fry our hair anymore.

#BLACKLIVESMATTER • THIS IS NOT A MOMENT, BUT A MOVEMENT • “#Black. Lives. Matter was created in 2012 after Trayvon Martin’s murderer, George Zimmerman, was acquitted for his crime… Rooted in the experiences of Black people in this country who actively resist our dehumanization, #Black. Lives. Matter is a call to action and a response to the virulent anti. Black racism that permeates our society. ”

• “Lift up Black lives as an opportunity to connect struggles across race, gender, nationality, sexuality, and disability. ”

• “Please do not change the conversation by talking about how your life matters, too. It does, but we need less watered-down unity and more active solidarities with us, Black people, unwaveringly, in defense of our humanity. ”

To Pimp a Butterfly

Butterflies are beautiful and they are full of color. Butterflies are so beautiful, they cant be made any more so. They can’t be manipulated, exploited, controlled, or confined. So why does America keep trying to do these same things to people of color? Why does America keep trying to pimp the butterfly? Surely we must know by now the Civil Rights Movement was a metamorphoses from which we emerged into a colorblind, post-racial springtime, shedding the cocoon of Jim Crow, right?