Women against straightening: proposals to confront criollismo and Hispanism.
Aesthetic resistance strategies
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https://doi.org/10.17561/rtc.22.7108Keywords:
Straightening, Hair/hair, Creole/Hispanist, Miscegenation, ResistanceAbstract
Hair is epistemology, as well as an element from which the identity of otherness is suppressed. The present investigation opposes the discourse of the Creole-Hispanist identity, the same one that has gained prominence in the government of Guillemo Lasso; with the work of a group of stylists from Quito who seek to revitalize the identity, aesthetics and beauty of hair/black hair. The efforts of these women allow us to think that the colonial and racist structure has operated on their hair through hair-destroying techniques such as straightening. The lack of products that are friendly to hair/black hair is also observed, as well as the lack of knowledge of how to cut hair/black hair. For these women, miscegenation, offered by the Creole/Hispanist discourse, is not a viable alternative, since it does not meet the specific requirements and conditions of hair/black hair. The hair / hair has also allowed them to develop resistance processes, alternative techniques to straightening and processes of cultural and identity resistance.
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