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Don't Touch My Hair

by Emma Dabiri
Emma Dabiri
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Straightened. 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. 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 at 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 sophisticated indigenous mathematical systems in black hairstyles, alongside styles that served as secret intelligence networks leading enslaved Africans to freedom, Don't Touch My Hair proves that far from being only hair, black hairstyling culture can be understood as an allegory for black oppression and, ultimately, liberation.

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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9780241401712
  • File size: 222322 KB
  • Release date: May 2, 2019
  • Duration: 07:43:10

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  • ISBN: 9780241401712
  • File size: 222350 KB
  • Release date: May 2, 2019
  • Duration: 07:48:11
  • Number of parts: 8

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History Sociology Nonfiction

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English

Straightened. 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. 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 at 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 sophisticated indigenous mathematical systems in black hairstyles, alongside styles that served as secret intelligence networks leading enslaved Africans to freedom, Don't Touch My Hair proves that far from being only hair, black hairstyling culture can be understood as an allegory for black oppression and, ultimately, liberation.

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History Sociology Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Penguin Books Ltd
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9780241401712
    File size: 222322 KB
    Release date: May 2, 2019
    Duration: 07:43:10

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9780241401712
    File size: 222350 KB
    Release date: May 2, 2019
    Duration: 07:48:11
    Number of parts: 8

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    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English
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