BLACK SKIN AND CREPY HAIR: THE STORY OF ALIENATION | ESIBLA
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Taking an interest in the hair (frizzy) / skin (black) pair in order to reveal the places where the ethnocultural domination of one group has passed through another is dictated by the concern to adopt - in the treatment of the complex problematic of imitation and / or intercultural borrowing - an empirical approach that shows the imprint, on the body and the hair of the dominated, of the concrete modalities of the exercise of the influence of the dominants, that we would have objectively a little more difficult to define, through the only study of their speech. In addition to having to constantly adjust to the social changes that are imposed on them, the dominated, deprived of a social project and a self-centered development model, are condemned to be towed to an exogenous development, which leaves them no choice. that between borrowing and imitating socio-cultural traits not adapted to their racial and cultural specificities, but which nevertheless help them not to be excluded from "the march of the world". Also, in the societies resulting from colonization, phenomena of behavioral and cultural mimicry have emerged, which have been characterized in terms of denaturation (in relation to the initial racial and cultural references of the African populations enslaved or enslaved on their own territory), before being stigmatized in fairly systematic terms of cultural alienation. The studies and analyzes bearing on this alienation have less explored the somatological (physiological) modalities and manifestations of aesthetic practices that we have not failed to qualify as mimetic, but which cannot be understood outside the context of the society of Westernized consumption which is imposed on the whole planet, and which pushes to decompartmentalize the properly cultural meanings attributed to these phenomena, without freeing them from a reading in terms of the influence of the dominant Western culture on the dominated cultures # Biography: Juliette Sméralda has a doctorate in sociology, currently Temporary Teaching and Research Attaché (ATER) at Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg II. The sociology of dominance and interculturality are his areas of research.

BLACK SKIN AND CREPY HAIR: THE STORY OF ALIENATION

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