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Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America

Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America

Byrd, Ayana
Tharps, Lori

Paperback

General ReferenceAnthropologyBlack American Studies

Publisher Price: $18.99

ISBN10: 1250046572
ISBN13: 9781250046574
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: Jan 28 2014
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.13 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

Two world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. From the antebellum practice of shaving the head in an attempt to pass as a free person to the 1998 uproar over a White third-grade teacher's reading of the book Nappy Hair, the issues surrounding African American hair continue to linger as we enter the twenty-first century.

Hair Story is a historical and anecdotal exploration of Black Americans' tangled hair roots. A chronological look at the culture and politics behind the ever-changing state of Black hair from fifteenth-century Africa to the present-day United States, it ties the personal to the political and the popular.

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* Why Black American slaves used items like axle grease and eel skin to straighten their hair.

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