Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America by Lori Tharps, Ayana Byrd

Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America

Lori Tharps, Ayana Byrd

272 pages paperback 2001

6 editions

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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...

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