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 2013 uproar over an Ohio school that banned Afro puffs, the issues surrounding Black hair continue to linger as we move through 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 Black Americans can use as a benchmark for tracing a unique aspect of their history, and that people of any background will celebrate as the reference guide for understanding Black hair.
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 2013 uproar over an Ohio school that banned Afro puffs, the issues surrounding Black hair continue to linger as we move through 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 Black Americans can use as a benchmark for tracing a unique aspect of their history, and that people of any background will celebrate as the reference guide for understanding Black hair.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940173746290 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Tantor Audio |
| Publication date: | 11/15/2019 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
Related Subjects
- History
- Social Sciences
- Diet, Health & Fitness
- African Americans
- United States History
- African Americans - General & Miscellaneous
- Ethnic & Minority Studies
- Regional Studies
- Beauty & Grooming
- Social Sciences - General & Miscellaneous
- Anthropology & Archaeology
- Women's Studies
- African American History
- Ethnic & Minority Studies - United States
- United States Studies
- Discrimination & Prejudice
- Socio-Cultural Anthropology
- Women - Regional Studies
- African American History - Social Aspects
- African Americans - Social Conditions
- Beauty & Grooming - General & Miscellaneous
- Discrimination & Prejudice - General
- Socio-Cultural Anthropology - General & Miscellaneous
- Women - United States
- Women's Studies - General & Miscellaneous