It’s best if you provide citation when making statements like this. i need to take the time to learn how to make memes but I get lazy or go do other stuff.
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Some slave owners were allowed to receive reparations
So I get that this is a meme page and everything but still let’s try to be a little honest here. This meme is referencing a video with several historical inaccuracies, but there is some background to this. This comes from the “Tignon Law” which was created by the Spanish governor of Louisiana, Esteban Rodriguez Miró in 1786. This is thought of to be an extension of several French laws (Code Noir) that put restrictions on how black and white people could live their lives to enfore a social hierarchy based on race. The Tignon law required black women, free and enslaved, to wear headwraps. This was not a Jim Crow law as it was the 18th century and not around in the 20th century, and it wasn’t super strictly enforced as its purpose was just to make sure that the social code of society was clearly established.
Cole-Leonard, N. (2005). Maya Angelou’s “Hallelujah! The Welcome Table, A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes” as Evocative Text, or, “Ain’t” Jemima’s Recipes. The Langston Hughes Review, 19, 66–69. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26434639
Brown, K. & Gilbert, L. (2021).Black hair as metaphor explored through duoethnography and arts-based research. Journal of Folklore and Education 8, 85-106.
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It’s best if you provide citation when making statements like this. i need to take the time to learn how to make memes but I get lazy or go do other stuff.
Some slave owners were allowed to receive reparations
One of the articles since everyone is asking for proof https://www.vice.com/en/article/black-womens-hair-illegal-tignon-laws-new-orleans-louisiana/
So I get that this is a meme page and everything but still let’s try to be a little honest here. This meme is referencing a video with several historical inaccuracies, but there is some background to this. This comes from the “Tignon Law” which was created by the Spanish governor of Louisiana, Esteban Rodriguez Miró in 1786. This is thought of to be an extension of several French laws (Code Noir) that put restrictions on how black and white people could live their lives to enfore a social hierarchy based on race. The Tignon law required black women, free and enslaved, to wear headwraps. This was not a Jim Crow law as it was the 18th century and not around in the 20th century, and it wasn’t super strictly enforced as its purpose was just to make sure that the social code of society was clearly established.
Cole-Leonard, N. (2005). Maya Angelou’s “Hallelujah! The Welcome Table, A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes” as Evocative Text, or, “Ain’t” Jemima’s Recipes. The Langston Hughes Review, 19, 66–69. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26434639
Brown, K. & Gilbert, L. (2021).Black hair as metaphor explored through duoethnography and arts-based research. Journal of Folklore and Education 8, 85-106.
Palmer, V. (1996). The origins and authors of the Code Noir.Louisiana Law Review 56 (2), 5.
https://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5617&context=lalrev