"(Nappy, kinky and curly) hair up, leading me to leap" amid the ressignification of black women identities in social and organizational contexts

This article aims to analyze the resignification processes of the black women identities occurring through the so-called transition to natural hair and the way society and organizations have reacted to this resignification. The study contributes to the Organizational Studies field by problematizing...

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Autores: Mesquita, Juliana Schneider, Teixeira, Juliana Cristina, Silva, Caroline Rodrigues
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Brasil
Institución:Faculdade Cenecista de Campo Largo (FACECLA)
Repositorio:Revista Eletrônica de Ciência Administrativa
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicosibepes.org.br:article/2868
Acceso en línea:http://www.periodicosibepes.org.br/index.php/recadm/article/view/2868
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Management
black woman; identities; transition to natural hair; afro hair; race
Administração
mulher negra; identidades; transição capilar; cabelo afro; raça
Descripción
Sumario:This article aims to analyze the resignification processes of the black women identities occurring through the so-called transition to natural hair and the way society and organizations have reacted to this resignification. The study contributes to the Organizational Studies field by problematizing identities under construction that pass through various social and organizational spaces that need to be rethought in order to understand this process as much broader than merely aesthetic in the strict sense of this term. The research is qualitative and involved interviews with semistructured scripts with women who have been or are going through the transition to natural hair, whose discursive statements were analyzed through the theoretical-methodological approach of the french discourse analysis. The main results show that the interviewees, when passing through the transition to natural hair, had their identities resignified and such resignification brought relevant changes in their relations in society and in organizations.