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Author Dabiri, Emma, author.

Title Twisted : the tangled history of black hair culture / Emma Dabiri.

Publication Info. New York : Harper Perennial, 2020.
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 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  391.5 DAB    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  391.508 DABIRI    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  391.5 DAB    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  391.5 DABIRI    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  391.5 DABIRI    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  391.5 DAB    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  391.5 DAB    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  391.508 DABIRI    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  391.5 DAB    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  391.5 D112D    Check Shelf

Edition First U.S. edition
Description 259 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contents It's only hair -- Ain't got the time -- Shhhh... just relax -- How can he love himself and hate your hair? -- Everybody wanna sing my blues, nobody wanna live my blues -- Ancient futures: math, mapping, braiding, encoding.
Note "Originally published as "Don't Touch My Hair" in the United Kingdom in 2019 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-255).
Summary Despite increasingly liberal world views, black hair continues to be erased, appropriated, and stigmatized to the point of taboo. Through her personal and historical journey, Dabiri gleans insights into the way racism is coded in society's perception of black hair--and how it is often used as an avenue for discrimination. Dabiri takes us from pre-colonial Africa, through the Harlem Renaissance, and into today's Natural Hair Movement, exploring everything from women's solidarity and friendship, to the criminalization of dreadlocks, to the dubious provenance of Kim Kardashian's braids. Through the lens of hair texture, Dabiri leads us on a historical and cultural investigation of the global history of racism--and her own personal journey of self-love and finally, acceptance. Deeply researched and powerfully resonant, Twisted proves that far from being only hair, black hairstyling culture can be understood as an allegory for black oppression and, ultimately, liberation.
Subject Hairdressing of Black people -- Social aspects.
Hairdressing of Black people -- History.
Hairstyles -- History.
Hairstyles -- Social aspects.
Hair -- Social aspects.
Women, Black -- Social conditions.
Hairdressing of Black people.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural, Ethnic & Regional -- African American & Black.
Hair -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00950381
Hairdressing of Blacks. (OCoLC)fst00950428
Hairstyles. (OCoLC)fst00950431
Hairstyles -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00950434
Women, Black -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01178934
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Autobiographies.
Added Title Don't touch my hair
ISBN 0062966723
9780062966728
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