The phrase 'can I touch it?' Is one that many black woman can relate to because of this fascination with our hairstyles. I feel a sense of strength and unity in these images after all that we've gone through, and this idea of making the best out of life and current situations.Įndia explores the struggle that black women have to create 'reasonable' styles for our texture that are again 'professional' enough for a corporate setting.

I feel that this series was a great way to show a few concepts here whether they were intended or not. Because we received this unfair start at life here in America, the effects are the struggles we continue to experience today that are echoing from slavery. After listening to Weems when she came to visit here at UNCG, she obviously is aware of the issues in black communities and the main sources of our struggles which for one, can be tracked through the upbringing of this country which was built on hate and discrimination towards black people. I read these sets of images as a look into our families and the bliss and safety we do have within each other, no matter the circumstances. I feel as though these raw images she was able to capture combats that idea of black struggles coming from our often broken homes, but rather suggesting that maybe that isn't the main issue. In this series, Carrie documented her family in their everyday being, working to capture black families in the most realistic way she could to show this unseen part of her community.

This was the first body of work that Carrie created actually in response to senator Daniel Patrick Moyniham, who claimed that African American struggles are due to the matriarical nature of our families.

Kitchen table series