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Don't Touch My Hair (Hardcover)
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Don't Touch My Hair (Hardcover)
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'Groundbreaking . . . a scintillating, intellectual investigation
into black women and the very serious business of our hair, as it
pertains to race, gender, social codes, tradition, culture,
cosmology, maths, politics, philosophy and history' Bernardine
Evaristo, The Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year In this
powerful book about why black hair matters, 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. SHORTLISTED FOR THE
2019 IRISH BOOK AWARDS
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