A chronicle of black hair in America looks back at the styles, myths, and grooming techniques adopted by African Americans throughout their history.
"A chronicle of black hair in America looks back at the styles, myths, and grooming techniques adopted by African Americans throughout their history."--Source inconnue.
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 …
Explores the relationship between African-Americans and their hair, offering a chronological look at the culture and politics behind the ever-changing state of African-American hair from fifteenth-century Africa to the present-day United States. Two world wars, the Civil Rights…
A chronicle of black hair in America looks back at the styles, myths, and grooming techniques adopted by African Americans throughout their history.