Don't Touch My Hair
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Narrated by:
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Emma Dabiri
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Emma Dabiri
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Straightened. Stigmatised. 'Tamed'. Celebrated. Erased. Managed. Appropriated. Forever misunderstood. Black hair is never 'just hair'.
This book is about why black hair matters and how it can be viewed as a blueprint for decolonisation. Emma Dabiri takes us from pre-colonial Africa, through the Harlem Renaissance, Black Power and on to today's Natural Hair Movement, the Cultural Appropriation Wars and beyond. We look at everything from hair capitalists like Madam C.J. Walker in the early 1900s to the rise of Shea Moisture today, from women's solidarity and friendship to 'black people time', forgotten African scholars and 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 hairstyles, 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.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-03-18
I've just finished and I'm about to restart
You could listen to this book over and over and continue to learn. I feel like the second time around I'll become much more familiar with the history and dates and the information will set in better. I'm going to go out and buy myself a hard copy too.
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- Margaret
- 2020-08-19
Yes Please
The depth and knowledge that I got out of this book was wholly unexpected mainly because I interpreted the title in the most millennial ‘don’t touch my hair’ by Solange way. I felt like it was going to be a good affirming book but I didn’t expect to necessarily learn anything new.
As an African woman in the diaspora it hit the spot, as a Nigerian woman it hit the spot and as a Black British woman who sometimes resents the dominance of the Black American experience in Black narratives it hit the bloody spot! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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