Comments on: Internalizing Racism http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2006/07/13/internalizing-racism/ dawn friedman's blog Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:12:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Lilian http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2006/07/13/internalizing-racism/#comment-13593 Lilian Thu, 13 Jul 2006 03:17:29 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=2203#comment-13593 Thanks for the link Dawn, excellent article. One of the (children's) books I'm analyzing in my dissertation is about a Black girl (Nina Bonita by Ana Maria Machado). I'm focusing on the book's translation from Portuguese into Spanish and then into English (a bit problematic because references to "peeing" and "pooping" were erased) but hair is one of the strong visual elements of the picture book (which is more present in the Portuguese text which refers to the girl's "ribbon bows"). Anyway, all of this to say that I'm very interested in references to Black hair and have followed quite closely the past troubles with the picture book _Nappy Hair_. I also love bell hooks' picture book Happy to be Nappy. Thanks for the link Dawn, excellent article. One of the (children’s) books I’m analyzing in my dissertation is about a Black girl (Nina Bonita by Ana Maria Machado). I’m focusing on the book’s translation from Portuguese into Spanish and then into English (a bit problematic because references to “peeing” and “pooping” were erased) but hair is one of the strong visual elements of the picture book (which is more present in the Portuguese text which refers to the girl’s “ribbon bows”).

Anyway, all of this to say that I’m very interested in references to Black hair and have followed quite closely the past troubles with the picture book _Nappy Hair_. I also love bell hooks’ picture book Happy to be Nappy.

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