{"id":21243,"date":"2012-07-02T13:01:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T18:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=21243"},"modified":"2012-08-31T14:39:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T19:39:35","slug":"efy-hair-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2012\/07\/efy-hair-and-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"EFY, hair, and culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Hair-Braided-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-21244\" title=\"Hair Braided 4\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Hair-Braided-4-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The bishop told Amadou he would not be allowed to attend EFY unless the braids were cut.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Amadou comes from Mali. His family settled here a few years ago and became members of the Church.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Wearing cornrows and braids is a common hairstyle among African men. It has existed for centuries and the patterns used to identify ethnicities as well as social status. Today, for many boys and men of African descent outside of Africa, it is still a form of ethnic affirmation and cultural belonging.\u00a0The bishop claims to have no choice but to enforce the EFY guidelines: \u201cno ponytails, pigtails, braids, designs, carvings (including Mohawks) or completely shaved heads.\u201d Also, allowing one boy with braids could create tensions as other participants did change their hairstyle to conform to the norms. Amadou could also be sent back, right at registration, and be obliged to travel the 100 miles back home.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0Amadou struggles over his braids and his identity. He may decide not to go to EFY. And, as we have seen with other youth in similar cases, he may not remain active in the Church.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bishop told Amadou he would not be allowed to attend EFY unless the braids were cut. \u00a0Amadou comes from Mali. His family settled here a few years ago and became members of the Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":21244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Hair-Braided-4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21243"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21318,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21243\/revisions\/21318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}