The politics of black women's hair /

Charts Black women's journeys with their hair: how it is perceived, judged, and graded on the yardstick of mainstream society's standards of beauty. Prince delves into the politics of Black women's hair, specifically examining the impact on the emotional lives of Black girls and women...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Prince, Althea, 1945- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London, Ontario : Insomniac Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Women, Black > Health and hygiene.
Women, Black > Social conditions.
Hair > Social aspects.
Hairdressing > Social aspects.
Femmes noires > Santé et hygiène.
Femmes noires > Conditions sociales.
Cheveux > Aspect social.
Coiffure > Aspect social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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