Ranging from the shaving of newborns to the coifing of the dead, from the anecdotal to the scholarly, and from antebellum America to contemporary Africa, this remarkable array of writings and images illuminates black women's hair and its cultural meaning.
Ranging from the shaving of newborns to the coifing of the dead, from the anecdotal to the scholarly, and from antebellum America to contemporary Africa, this remarkable array of writings and images illuminates black women's hair and its cultural meaning.
Pamela Johnson, a former Senior Editor of Essence magazine and now a frequent contributor, is a graduate of Stanford University. Juliette Harris is the editor of International Review of African American Art (IRAAA), which is published by Hampton University Museum in Virginia. She is the editor of In the Memory of Frances, Zora and Lorraine: Essays and Interviews on Black Women. Her prize-winning plays and TV productions include JUBA, the PBS series on African folklore. She has an MA in American Studies from the College of William and Mary, an MS in TV from Syracuse University, and a BA in history from Virginia Union University. Ntozake Shange (1948–2018) was a poet, novelist, playwright, and performer. She wrote the Broadway-produced and Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, as well as numerous works of fiction, including Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo; Betsey Brown; and Lilian.
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Contents Ms. Strand Calls a Press Conference Peace Be Still NTOZAKE SHANGE Heads of Steam Madam C. J. Walker: "Let Me Correct the Erroneous Impression That I Claim to Straighten Hair" A'LELIA BUNDLES The Hairdresser and the Scholar MARK HIGBEE Severed ANNABELLE BAKER It All Comes Down to the Kitchen HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. The Kink That Winked CYNTHIA COLBERT Tenderheaded, or Rejecting the Legacy of Being Able to Take It MEG HENSON SCALES Baby Hair Baby Hair CONSTANCE NICHOLS A Day at the Beach KAY BROWN Learning the Language of My Daughter's Hair PETER HARRIS Hair (R)evolution CYNTHIA COLBERT Things My Mother Never Taught Me JACQUELYN LONG Tenderheaded NIKKY FINNEY Cornrow Calculations (or Math Is Beauty) TONI WYNN Store-Bought Hair Fake GERRIE SUMMERS Planet Hair LISA JONES Hair Braiding, Miss? TAIIA SMART Madam Speaks MARK RICHARD MOSS Straight Talk Relax Your Mind! JENYNE M. RAINES When Black Hair Tangles with White Power MARIAME KABA Hot Comb NATASHA TRETHEWEY Straightening Our Hair BELL HOOKS A Rio Crime LAURA SULLIVAN A Short History of Early Hair Straightening WILLIE MORROW All-Time Top Hair Divas JENYNE RAINES Wrappers' Delight Under Cover HALIMA TAHA Grandma Blows Her Top GLORIA WADE GAYLES Uplift LIDDY JONES Bandanna MICHAEL D. HARRIS The Culture of Hair Sculpture JULIETTE HARRIS Pillow Talk If You Let Me Make Love to You, Then Why Can't I Touch Your Hair? CHERILYN "LIV" WRIGHT Battle of the Wigs GEORGE C. WOLFE White Boyfriend EVANGELINE WHEELER Hagar's Blues TONI MORRISON Dekar's Touch PAMELA JOHNSON When Worlds Collide The Curse (and Redemption) of Short Hair THOMAS "TAIWO" DUVALL Hair Hysteria S. PEARL SHARP Afro Images: Politics, Fashion and Nostalgia ANGELA Y. DAVIS Daughters of Africa EVANGELINE WHEELER On Short Nappy Hair and the Business of Blackness: From Ohio to South Africa PAITRA D. RUSSELL Smooth Heated Stones and Sunlight Soap ROSALIE KIAH Crowning Glories: Hair, Head, Style, and Substance in Yoruba Culture PHOTOS AND TEXT BY HENRY JOHN DREWAL No Longer Stranded IDARA E. BASSEY Silver Foxes My Smart Gray Streak YVONNE DURANT Attitude at Seventy-Five NAOMI LONG MADGETT In Her Hair S. PEARL SHARP Homage to My Hair LUCILLE CLIFTON Something's Lost in Living Every Day LEATHA SIMMONS MITCHELL She Who Mirrors Me RUBY DEE Gray Strands NAOMI LONG MADGETT Locks and Keys Don't Even Pretend (The Saturn Poem) PETER HARRIS In the Kitchen JEWELLE GOMEZ The Call TAMARA JEFFRIES Clean Break JILL NELSON My Bold Black Statement SUSAN L. TAYLOR Post-Traumatic Tress Syndrome DENISE L. DAVIS, M.D. In Sickness and in Health FRANKIE ALEXANDER Oppressed Hair Puts a Ceiling on the Brain ALICE WALKER A Happy Nappy Hair-Care Affair LINDA JONES Ms. Strand Adjourns About the Contributors
Contents Ms. Strand Calls a Press Conference Peace Be Still NTOZAKE SHANGE Heads of Steam Madam C. J. Walker: "Let Me Correct the Erroneous Impression That I Claim to Straighten Hair" A'LELIA BUNDLES The Hairdresser and the Scholar MARK HIGBEE Severed ANNABELLE BAKER It All Comes Down to the Kitchen HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. The Kink That Winked CYNTHIA COLBERT Tenderheaded, or Rejecting the Legacy of Being Able to Take It MEG HENSON SCALES Baby Hair Baby Hair CONSTANCE NICHOLS A Day at the Beach KAY BROWN Learning the Language of My Daughter's Hair PETER HARRIS Hair (R)evolution CYNTHIA COLBERT Things My Mother Never Taught Me JACQUELYN LONG Tenderheaded NIKKY FINNEY Cornrow Calculations (or Math Is Beauty) TONI WYNN Store-Bought Hair Fake GERRIE SUMMERS Planet Hair LISA JONES Hair Braiding, Miss? TAIIA SMART Madam Speaks MARK RICHARD MOSS Straight Talk Relax Your Mind! JENYNE M. RAINES When Black Hair Tangles with White Power MARIAME KABA Hot Comb NATASHA TRETHEWEY Straightening Our Hair BELL HOOKS A Rio Crime LAURA SULLIVAN A Short History of Early Hair Straightening WILLIE MORROW All-Time Top Hair Divas JENYNE RAINES Wrappers' Delight Under Cover HALIMA TAHA Grandma Blows Her Top GLORIA WADE GAYLES Uplift LIDDY JONES Bandanna MICHAEL D. HARRIS The Culture of Hair Sculpture JULIETTE HARRIS Pillow Talk If You Let Me Make Love to You, Then Why Can't I Touch Your Hair? CHERILYN "LIV" WRIGHT Battle of the Wigs GEORGE C. WOLFE White Boyfriend EVANGELINE WHEELER Hagar's Blues TONI MORRISON Dekar's Touch PAMELA JOHNSON When Worlds Collide The Curse (and Redemption) of Short Hair THOMAS "TAIWO" DUVALL Hair Hysteria S. PEARL SHARP Afro Images: Politics, Fashion and Nostalgia ANGELA Y. DAVIS Daughters of Africa EVANGELINE WHEELER On Short Nappy Hair and the Business of Blackness: From Ohio to South Africa PAITRA D. RUSSELL Smooth Heated Stones and Sunlight Soap ROSALIE KIAH Crowning Glories: Hair, Head, Style, and Substance in Yoruba Culture PHOTOS AND TEXT BY HENRY JOHN DREWAL No Longer Stranded IDARA E. BASSEY Silver Foxes My Smart Gray Streak YVONNE DURANT Attitude at Seventy-Five NAOMI LONG MADGETT In Her Hair S. PEARL SHARP Homage to My Hair LUCILLE CLIFTON Something's Lost in Living Every Day LEATHA SIMMONS MITCHELL She Who Mirrors Me RUBY DEE Gray Strands NAOMI LONG MADGETT Locks and Keys Don't Even Pretend (The Saturn Poem) PETER HARRIS In the Kitchen JEWELLE GOMEZ The Call TAMARA JEFFRIES Clean Break JILL NELSON My Bold Black Statement SUSAN L. TAYLOR Post-Traumatic Tress Syndrome DENISE L. DAVIS, M.D. In Sickness and in Health FRANKIE ALEXANDER Oppressed Hair Puts a Ceiling on the Brain ALICE WALKER A Happy Nappy Hair-Care Affair LINDA JONES Ms. Strand Adjourns About the Contributors
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