Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America
by
Ayana Byrd, Lori Tharps
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
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...