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'Groundbreaking, rich, heartbreaking . . . a highly charged history' GuardianStraightened. Stigmatised. 'Tamed'. Celebrated. Erased. Managed. Appropriated. Forever misunderstood. Black hair is never 'just hair'.

This book is about why black hair matters and how it can be viewed as a blueprint for decolonisation. Over a series of wry, informed essays, Emma Dabiri takes us from pre-colonial Africa, through the Harlem Renaissance, Black Power and on to today's Natural Hair Movement, the Cultural Appropriation Wars and beyond. We look everything from hair capitalists like Madam C.J. Walker in the early 1900s to the rise of Shea Moisture today, from women's solidarity and friendship to 'black people time', forgotten African scholars and the dubious provenance of Kim Kardashian's braids.

The scope of black hairstyling ranges from pop culture to cosmology, from prehistoric times to the (afro)futuristic. Uncovering...

Request Code : ZLIBIO2657057
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Year:
2019
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd;Allen Lane
Language:
English
Pages:
illustrations (black and white)
ISBN 10:
0141986298
ISBN 13:
9780141986296
ISBN:
9780141986296,0141986298

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