The Politics of Black Women's Hair
by Prince, AltheaFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-06-01
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Summary
Sometimes, hair is just hair. Sometimes, it's much more.In 1905, Madame C.J. Walker invented a metal comb that, when heated, transformed black women's hair from tight curls into smooth, straight tresses. The iron comb made her a millionaire, but many black people criticized her for creating a product that made black women's hair imitate white women's long, straight hair.From Madame Walker to First Lady Michelle Obama, this series of essays by Althea Prince and others explores the role of hairstyle in black women's relationships with their mothers, their peers, their self-image, and society as a whole.Althea Prince 's books include Being Black , Loving This Man , and Ladies of the Night . She teaches at Ryerson University in Toronto.
Author Biography
Dr. Althea Prince is a sociologist, essayist, and novelist. She teaches at the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Ryerson University. Her books include: Loving This Man, Being Black, and the short fiction collection, Ladies of the Night. She also co-edited Feminisms & Womanisms: A Women's Studies Reader.
Table of Contents
| Beginning the Walk | p. 9 |
| journeying from the core | |
| Rituals | p. 27 |
| touch a black woman's hair | |
| "Who I Am Is in My Hair | p. 39" |
| Guest Essay | |
| Conversations with Young Black Women in Toronto | p. 53 |
| my conclusions from eyewitnessing, listening, and sometimes listening-in | |
| Anonymous | p. 55 |
| Taija Ryan | p. 61 |
| Maxine Clarke | p. 68 |
| Conversations with Mothers of Black Girls | p. 71 |
| Veronica Ciandre | p. 73 |
| Skira Martinez | p. 79 |
| Elaine Nash and daughters, Nina and Raina | p. 81 |
| Andrea Oliver | p. 90 |
| Glenda Prince | p. 95 |
| Itah Sadu | p. 98 |
| Embodying the Hair on Our Heads | p. 102 |
| versions of hair: | |
| good hair | |
| bad hair | |
| coarse hair | |
| nappy hair | |
| black consciousness | p. 106 |
| about Jennifer Lopez and Beyoncé Knowles | p. 111 |
| me ah say ah one man | p. 112 |
| stories held in the heart | p. 113 |
| bliss in a straight-hair world | p. 115 |
| Barbara Walters and black women's hair | p. 119 |
| Dread and the Baldhead | p. 121 |
| Althea Prince is in the house | p. 124 |
| women with man-head | p. 125 |
| Stokely Carmichael and Miriam Makeba | p. 127 |
| from epiphany to action | p. 130 |
| Michelle Obama, The First Lady of the United States of America | p. 137 |
| 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 | p. 147 |
| email correspondence with my niece Janis | |
| And Look What the Future Hath Wrought | p. 153 |
| Poem | |
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