Thesis Ideas

Hello!

For my thesis, I wanted to expand on a project I've been piecing together since my first year of college. It is about the stigma of black hair and how it affects black women in the society. I wanted to focus on the corporate world and how the stigma can trickle down into micro aggressions. I want to focus on how those words or rules being implemented can take a toll on how black women feel about themselves and their image.

I want to develop this to be more project based with interviews of women from a variety of ages including RIT students. I want to include transcribing and maybe some media (video footage, photography). I think because it is such a niche topic, visuals and first hand perspectives can be really helpful.

I want to explore how an exhibition with shared authority of a narrative can look in contrast to how museums usually tell a person or peoples story. I want to prove how first hand accounts can engage and educate visitors in such a different way.

I am open to suggestions on how to make this project more concise or how to include more topics from the museum discourse that would work well with my project.