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Women in American culture today have the same expectations as previous generations of women – and those expectations were not always equal. The flapper transformed women into symbols of femininity that were to accompany white women in popular culture. The flapper’s dress and mannerisms and dance were to be worn by white women and also by black women – thus she created a sort of cultural revolution. She was a symbol of a modern female, she was both a symbol of femininity and also a symbol of femininity as a form of power. A black woman was seen as a symbol of independence; yet she too faced a very different kind of authority. While the black woman was seen as a modern woman, the flapper was seen as a symbol of a Victorian woman. In this way, the flapper transformed women’s roles in the 19th century, changing the way white and black women were seen by society and the state. The black woman’s role was to represent independence – but how are we to understand a black woman who becomes a symbol of independence, when she becomes a symbol of subjugation?
In the 1930s, the US was gripped by a terrible depression. This had resulted in a huge increase in the unemployment rate in the US; white Americans in particular were struggling to get by and support their families. The flapper was one of the symbol of this economic insecurity that many whites felt under the weight of the Depression; and so, she became a symbol too, of being unemployed and in need of a little bit of support.
We all want to be loved, we all want to be cared for, we all want to look as beautiful as we can. It takes more than a hat and a wig to do that. To be a flapper was to be attractive. To be a flapper was to be pretty. (…) I was never to lose the idea of what a flapper is all about and the feeling of her as an idol. It was important, at that time, that that part of my personality go well beyond what I was being able to show in my real life. (…)
The social stigma that this symbol of black femininity would cause, however, did not help to build up her image.
“To get a job was to have people tell you, ‘Oh, look at this person, their clothes are so pretty.’ Then they’d tell you that you wouldn’t live here if you didn’t do well.” She didn
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