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Author:
Prince, Althea, 1945-
Title:
The politics of black women's hair / Althea Prince.
Publisher:
Insomniac Press,
Copyright Date:
c2009
Description:
160 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Women, Black--Health and hygiene.
Women, Black--Social conditions.
Hair--Social aspects.
Hairdressing--Social aspects.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-160).
Contents:
Beginning the walk : journeying from the core -- Rituals : touch a Black woman's hair -- Who I am is in my hair / guest essay Dr. Janice Prince Inniss -- Conversations with young Black women in Toronto : my conclusions from eyewitnessing, listening, and sometimes listening-in -- Conversations with mothers of Black girls -- Embodying the hair on our heads : versions of hair: good hair, bad hair, coarse hair, nappy hair -- Dread and the baldhead -- Stokely Carmichael and Miriam Makeba -- Michelle Obama, the First Lady of the United States of America : musings on the media, sister-Black women, and Michelle Obama's hair ; plus, Chris Rock discovers his daughter wants "good hair" -- To locks or not to locks : email correspondence with my niece Janis -- Look what the future hath wrought / poem by Mansa Trotman.
ISBN:
1897178875
9781897178874
LCCN:
2009482590
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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