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Hair Story Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America by Ayana Byrd | 4.73 MB
English | 266 Pages| ISBN: N/A
Title: Hair Story
Author: Ayana Byrd, Lori L. Tharps
Year: 2014
Description:
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 teacher's reading of the book Nappy Hair, the issues surrounding Black hair continue to linger as we enter the twenty-first century.
Hair Story is a historical and anecdotal exploration of Black Americans' tangled hair roots. A chronological look at the culture and politics behind the ever-changing state of Black hair from fifteenth-century Africa to the present-day United States, it ties the personal to the political and the popular.
Read about:
* Why Black American slaves used items like axle grease and eel skin to straighten their hair.
* How a Mexican chemist straightened Black hair using his formula for turning sheep's wool into a minklike fur.
* How the Afro...
DOWNLOAD:
https://uploadgig.com/file/download/f0D60e1ad90E296a/Hair_Story__Untangling_the_Roots_of_Black_Hair_in_America_by_Ayana_Byrd_.rar
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 teacher's reading of the book Nappy Hair, the issues surrounding Black hair continue to linger as we enter the twenty-first century.
Hair Story is a historical and anecdotal exploration of Black Americans' tangled hair roots. A chronological look at the culture and politics behind the ever-changing state of Black hair from fifteenth-century Africa to the present-day United States, it ties the personal to the political and the popular.
Read about:
* Why Black American slaves used items like axle grease and eel skin to straighten their hair.
* How a Mexican chemist straightened Black hair using his formula for turning sheep's wool into a minklike fur.
* How the Afro...
DOWNLOAD:
https://uploadgig.com/file/download/f0D60e1ad90E296a/Hair_Story__Untangling_the_Roots_of_Black_Hair_in_America_by_Ayana_Byrd_.rar
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