Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America
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About this book
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 teachers reading of the book Nappy Hair the issues surrounding Black hair linger as we enter the twenty-first century. Tying the personal to the political and the popular Hair Story takes a chronological look at the culture behind the ever-changing state of Black hair-from fifteenth century Africa to the present-day United States. Hair Story is the book that Black Americans can use as a benchmark for tracing a unique aspect of their history and that people of all races will celebrate as the reference guide for understanding Black hair.
