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Good Hair Days: Four New Books Tell the Story of Black Hair
by Carla Robinson |
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People are talking about Black hair now more than ever, and not in those hushed
tones of yesterday.
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Most of us Black women, love our hair for
what it is and hate it for what it is not. What we feel about it was
handed down from slavery, when we were stripped of the tools our
African ancestors used to manage it and, in their place, handed the
sense of shame and inadequacy that plagues us to this day. On Her
Own Ground, Hair Story, Tenderheaded and The Black
Rose entertain and educate, challenging the way we see our hair and, by extension,
ourselves. M
May 2001
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