Word: negroness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black and white is inconclusive and limited, as Jensen himself admits. Jensen also allows for the elevating effect of a rich cultural environment. But except in cases of severe deprivation, he denies any substantial depressing effect in a culturally poor one. The implication, to him, is that most Negroes-and, for that matter, many low-income whites-are not sufficiently deprived to claim environment as a major factor in low IQ performance. "Various lines of evidence," he argues, "no one of which is definitive alone, make it a not unreasonable hypothesis that genetic factors are strongly implicated in the average...
...Strings, Richard Rodgers' otherwise forgettable Broadway musical of seven seasons ago, Diahann Carroll was cast as a Negro girl from Harlem who struck it rich as a high-fashion model in Paris. For plausibility's sake, it had to be Paris. Nobody would have believed the story if it had been set in Manhattan, least of all Diahann herself...
Actress Carroll had tried to make a go of modeling in the 1950s, but failed miserably. Fashion-magazine editors shied away from using Negro models for fear of offending readers and advertisers. When Diahann was able to find work, it was usually for such Negro publications as Ebony or Jet, and she was paid only $10 to $15 an hour v. the $35 to $50 an hour earned by white models. "I finally decided there was no future for a Negro in modeling," she says...
...recent months, for the first time in their history, Mademoiselle and Ladies' Home Journal have taken to using Negro as well as white models on their covers; black mannequins have appeared in almost every issue of Vogue and Bazaar for the past year. Of the 100-odd girls employed by the Ford model agency, New York's biggest and best known, a dozen now are black. Other formerly all-white agencies have similarly integrated their rosters, and in the past three months two new agencies have opened in Manhattan to handle black models...
Eleanor Lambert, the fashion publicist known as "the voice" of Seventh Avenue, feels that "this is the moment for the Negro girl. She has long legs, is apt to be very thin and wiry. That is the look of now." It is also the look of Naomi Sims, 21, a 5-ft. 10-in. Pittsburgher whose other vital statistics (32-23-34) will never qualify her for a Playboy centerfold, but make her currently one of the most ubiquitous and highest-paid fashion models in the world. Two years ago, Naomi was studying psychology on a scholarship at New York...