Don't touch my hair / Emma Dabiri.
By: Dabiri, Emma [author.]
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BookPublisher: London : Penguin Books, 2020Copyright date: ©2019 Description: 245 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780141986289 (paperback).Subject(s): Hairdressing of Black people -- Social aspects | Hairdressing of Black people -- History | Hairstyles -- Social aspects | Hairstyles -- History | Women, Black -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 391.508996 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 391.508996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 29/03/2024 | 00231480 | |
| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 391.508996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00231481 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Recent years have seen the conversation around black hair reach tipping point, yet detractors still proclaim 'it's only hair!' when it never is. This book is about why black hair matters and how it can be viewed as a blueprint for decolonisation. The author takes us from pre-colonial Africa, through the Harlem Renaissance, Black Power and into today's Natural Hair Movement, the Cultural Appropriation Wars and beyond. We look at the trajectory from hair capitalists like Madam CJ Walker in the early 1900s to the rise of Shea Moisture today, touching on everything from women's solidarity and friendship, to forgotten African scholars, to 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 hair styles, 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.
Includes bibliographical references.
It's only hair -- Ain't got the time -- Shhh ... just relax -- How can he love himself and hate your hair? -- Everybody wants to sing my blues, nobody wants to live my blues -- Ancient futures : maths, mapping, braiding, encoding.