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SThe Inger Rihannas Savage X Fenty fashion line has sparked an online debate around cultural appropriation, after a model wore what looked like a braid during an lingerie label show. After the show premiered last Friday on Amazon Prime, viewers expressed concern on social media at seeing non-black models, including Emily Ratajkowski, in braids.
I wish I could write something funny like putting all these white girls in braids for a Fenty show, tweeted comedian and television writer Raina Morris. And Dylan Ali wrote: I love the Fenty show but I think we need a trigger alert to see a lot of white women braided.
The author of My Beautiful Black Hair, St Clair Detrick-Jules, said: For the producers of the Rihannas fashion show to the white fashion model with the typical Black braid, it was tiring. We’ve made progress educating non-black women about how deeply connected we are to our hair, but it’s here that producers intentionally ignore all the easily accessible information online explaining what cultural appropriation is and why it’s dangerous.
By online commentator questioning the origin of hairstyles, Detrick-Jules assesses the effort to reframe the debate around hair due to a lack of knowledge and understanding of history. The fact that our knowledge is so vague and often filled with more myth than fact, partly explains why there is so much cultural appropriation. He says braids originated in Africa about 3,500 years ago. They have been used to indicate social status, religion, marital status and other identity markers. In other words, braids, like other black hairstyles, reflect culture.
Last year Selena Gomez was criticized after appearing on the cover of Interview sports braids magazine. In May, Justin Bieber was summoned online for wearing a cornrow hairstyle and Kim Kardashian has been called in regularly for blackfishing: appearing to wear hairstyles such as braids, and brown makeup, allegedly to look Black. Detrick-Jules assesses incidents like this continue to occur because of misunderstandings about the meaning of style.
“I look at the education system here in the United States and it’s clear that we’ve been educating ourselves about our history, particularly with regard to indigenous and black history,” he said. In that context, Detrick-Jules says it’s easy to understand why a non-black woman might think that it’s okay to braid her hair. [They] don’t understand that, for us, black hair is black history. [They] also don’t understand the centuries of real trauma that black women go through because of our hair and so on [a non-Black woman] do not understand that, for us, braids or other natural black hairstyles are not in fashion. They are history, they are our relationship with our ancestors a relationship that was deliberately severed by the slave trade which was their legacy.
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