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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
Straightened. Stigmatized. 'Tamed'. Celebrated. Erased. Managed.Appropriated. Forever misunderstood. Black hair is never 'just hair'.
Thisbook is about why black hair matters and how it can be viewed as ablueprint for decolonisation. Over a series of wry, informed essays,Emma Dabiri takes us from pre-colonial Africa, through the HarlemRenaissance, Black Power and on to today's Natural Hair Movement, theCultural Appropriation Wars and beyond. We look everything from haircapitalists like Madam C.J. Walker in the early 1900s to the rise ofShea Moisture today, from women's solidarity and friendship to 'blackpeople time', forgotten African scholars and the dubious provenance ofKim Kardashian's braids.
The scope of black hairstyling rangesfrom pop culture to cosmology, from prehistoric times to the(afro)futuristic. Uncovering sophisticated indigenous mathematicalsystems in black hairstyles, alongside styles that served as secretintelligence 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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Dabiri's brilliant book recognises that black hair - particularly women's hair - is charged with social and racial significance