The politics of black women's hair / Althea Prince.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Prince, Althea, 1945-
Language:English
Published: London, Ont. : Insomniac Press, [2009], ©2009.
Subjects:
Women, Black > Social conditions.
Women, Black > Health and hygiene.
Hair > Social aspects.
Hairdressing > Social aspects.
Physical Description:160 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Beginning the walk : journeying from the core
  • Rituals : touch a Black woman's hair
  • Who I am is in my hair / guest essay Dr. Janice Prince Inniss
  • Conversations with young Black women in Toronto : my conclusions from eyewitnessing, listening, and sometimes listening-in
  • Conversations with mothers of Black girls
  • Embodying the hair on our heads : versions of hair: good hair, bad hair, coarse hair, nappy hair
  • Dread and the baldhead
  • Stokely Carmichael and Miriam Makeba
  • Michelle Obama, the First Lady of the United States of America : musings on the media, sister-Black women, and Michelle Obama's hair ; plus, Chris Rock discovers his daughter wants "good hair"
  • To locks or not to locks : email correspondence with my niece Janis
  • Look what the future hath wrought / poem by Mansa Trotman.