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months after her big chop, she entered the job market and became very nervous about how her hair would appear to interviewers. Luckily, none of the interviewers acknowledged her hair in a discriminating way. Brown later discussed the first appearance of "the bush" as a political statement and related it to her situation, worrying that her hair could be seen as a "professional liability". She then compared her natural hair, which is easier to style, and her relaxed hair, which is more accepted. Brown also incorporated examples of workplace discrimination toward Black hair styles. She recalls how "the Congressional Black Caucus took the U.S. military to task for its grooming policies, which barred cornrows, twists, and dreadlocks."(Brown 17) Brown followed up with another example from the same year in which the Transportation Security Administration has "come under fire for disproportionately patting down black women's hair—especially their Afros."(Brown 17) She continued, stating, "It's a practice TSA only agreed to stop a few months ago, when the agency reached an agreement with ACLU of Northern California, which had filed a complaint in 2012."(Brown 17)
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types: African Natural Hair, Braided African Natural Hair, African Natural Augmented Braid, and European/Asian Hairstyles. The results showed that "only 15.1% of respondents identified the category of African natural hair as beautiful."(Oyedemi 546) Braided natural hair had 3.1%, braided natural augmented hair had 30.8%, and European/Asian hair had 51%. Author Toks Oyedemi speaks on these findings as, "evidences the cultural violence of symbolic indoctrination that involves the perception of beautiful hair as mainly of a European/Asian texture and style and has created a trend where this type of hair is associated with being beautiful and preferable to other hair texture, in this instance, natural African hair."(Oyedemi 546) This article shows the telling truth of how African girls feel about their own hair, a perception that demonstrates a lack of self acceptance.
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were the only means of looking presentable and attaining success in society. The pressing comb and chemical straighteners became stigmatized within the community as symbols of oppression and imposed White beauty ideals. Certain Black people sought to embrace beauty and affirm and accept their natural physical traits. One of the ultimate goals of the Black movement was to evolve to a level where Black people "were proud of black skin and kinky or nappy hair. As a result, natural hair became a symbol of that pride." Negative perceptions of kinky hair and beauty had been passed down through the generations, so they had become ingrained in Black mentality to the point where they had been accepted as
399:– in common with cultures worldwide – developed hairstyles that defined status, or identity, in regards to age, ethnicity, wealth, social rank, marital status, religion, fertility, adulthood, and death. Hair was carefully groomed, as the social implications of hair grooming were a significant part of community life. Dense, thick, clean, and neatly groomed hair was something highly admired and sought after. Hair groomers possessed unique styling skills, allowing them to create a variety of designs that met the local cultural standards. 460: 33: 3638: 624: 773: 1365: 872:, as well as cutting and styling services, some to both White and Black clients. In this era, men regularly went to barber shops to have their beards groomed, and some Black barbers developed exclusively White, elite clientele, sometimes in association with hotels or clubs. Media images tended to perpetuate the ideals of European beauty of the majority culture, even when featuring African-Americans. 335: 844:) became an innovative method in the U.S. for Black men to straighten their kinky hair. Women at that time tended either to wear wigs, or to hot-comb their hair (rather than conk it) in order to temporarily mimic a straight style without permanently altering the natural curl pattern. Popular until the 1960s, the conk hair style was achieved through the application of a painful 969:
says, "hair is not just something to play with" – it is something that sends a message, not only to the outside public but also a message on how they see themselves. "In the 1800s and early 1900s, nappy, kinky, curly hair was deemed inferior, ugly and unkempt in comparison with the flowing, bouncy hair of people from other cultures", says Marcia Wade Talbert in
3626: 414:, in the 20th and 21st centuries it has developed into a multimillion-dollar business in such regions as the United States, South Africa and among black African migrants to western Europe. An individual's hair groomer was usually someone whom they knew closely. Sessions can include shampooing, oiling, combing, braiding and twisting, plus adding accessories. 229:, which can tend towards a circle or be distinctly flattened. East Asians heads of straight hair are formed from almost-round hair follicles producing straight hair, and European hair follicle forms oval shapes which produce wavy hair. Kinky hair has a flattened cross-section and is finer, and its ringlets can form tight circles with diameters of only a few 297:. Kinky hair requires more moisture than straight hair and tends to shrink when dry. Instead of sticking to the neck and scalp when damp (as do straighter textures), it tends to retain its basic springiness, unless completely drenched. The trait may have been retained and/or preferred among many anatomically modern populations in equatorial areas, such as 702:, a political activist, says that "the way wore hair was an expression of the rebellion of the time". Black activists infused straightened hair with political valence; straightening one's hair in an attempt to 'simulate Whiteness', whether chemically or with the use of heat, came to be seen by some as an act of self-hatred and a sign of 256: 718:. Wearing natural hair was seen as a progressive statement, and for all the support that the movement gathered, there were many who opposed natural hair both for its aesthetics and the ideology that it promoted. It caused tensions between the Black and White communities, as well as discomfort amongst more conservative African-Americans. 694:, the Black community endeavoured to define their own ideals and beauty standards, and hair became a central icon which was "promoted as a way of challenging mainstream standards regarding hair". During this time, kinky hair "was at its height of politicization", and wearing an Afro was an easily distinguishable physical expression of 730:', and "ethnicities are valorized according to the tilt of whiteness— functions as the ideological basis for status ascription." In turn, in this value system, "African elements—be they cultural or physical—are devalued as indices of low social status, while European elements are positively valorized as attributes enabling individual 799:, many African-Americans migrated to larger towns or cities, where they were influenced by new styles. The photos below show 19th-century women leaders with a variety of styles with natural hair. Others straightened their hair to conform to White beauty ideals. They wanted to succeed, and to avoid mistreatment including 202:
kinky hair. However, kinky hair is often difficult to categorize because of the many different variations among individuals. Those variations include pattern (mainly tight coils), pattern size (watch spring to chalk), density (sparse to dense), strand diameter (fine, medium, coarse), and feel (cottony, woolly, spongy).
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heat) can result in overprocessing, breakage and thinning of the hair. Rooks (1996) argues that hair-care products designed to straighten hair, which have been marketed by white-owned companies in African American publications since the 1830s, represent unrealistic and unattainable standards of beauty.
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Cheryl Thompson writes, "In 15th-century Africa, hairstyles were used to indicate a person's marital status, age, religion, ethnic identity, wealth and rank within the community (see Byrd & Tharps, 2001; Jacobs-Huey, 2006; Mercer, 1994; Patton, 2006; Rooks, 1996). For young black girls, Thompson
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The style of kinky hair continues to be politicized in contemporary American society. "These issues of style are highly charged as sensitive questions about very 'identity'." Whether an individual decides to wear their hair in its natural state or alter it, all Black hairstyles convey a message. In
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In 2016, the article "Beauty as violence: 'beautiful' hair and the cultural violence of identity erasure" discussed a study that was conducted at a South African university. 159 African female students looked at 20 pictures of various styles of kinky hair and categorized these styles as one of four
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In 2014, Stacia L. Brown related her story of feeling anxious about how her hair was styled prior to walking in for a job interview in her article "My Hair, My Politics". Brown begins her story describing her "Big Chop", a phrase used to indicate cutting off the relaxed or processed hair. A couple
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At this time, an African-American person's "ability to conform to mainstream standards of beauty tied to being successful." Thus, rejecting straightened hair symbolized a deeper act of rejecting the belief that straightening hair and other forms of grooming which were deemed 'socially acceptable'
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Wearing kinky hair in its natural state today represents embracing one's natural self, and for some it is a simple matter of style or preference. In the United States during the 1960s, kinky hair was transformed into a revolutionary political statement that became synonymous with Black Pride &
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According to Robbins (2012), kinky hair may have been adaptive for the earliest modern humans in Africa because the relatively sparse density of such hair, combined with its elastic helix shape, results in an airy effect. The resulting increased circulation of cool air onto the scalp may have thus
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The popularity of natural hair has waxed and waned. In the early 21st century, a significant percentage of African-American women still straighten their hair with relaxers of some kind (either heat- or chemical-based). This is done despite the fact that prolonged application of such chemicals (or
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Kinky hair has been through many different cycles. Slavery played a major role in the ups and downs of the pride that African-Americans take in their hair. "Everything I knew about American history I learned from looking at Black people's hair. It's the perfect metaphor for the African experiment
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has increased. "I see a lot of women who have started to accept themselves and their hair". "They're encouraging their children to start accepting themselves. This is entirely new", according to Terry Shrosphire in the article "Black Hair Relaxer Sales are Slumping Because Of This". Research has
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in deciding the value and politics of their own hair. Wearing one's hair naturally also opens up a new debate: Are those who decide to still wear their hair straightened, for example, less 'Black' or 'proud' of their heritage, than those who decide to wear their hair naturally? This debate is an
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found that kinky hair grows at an average rate of approximately 256 micrometers per day, whereas European-textured straight hair grows at approximately 396 micrometers per day. In addition, due to a phenomenon called 'shrinkage', kinky hair that is a given length when stretched straight can
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classifies kinky hair as 'type 4' (there are other types of hair, defined as type 1 for straight hair, type 2 for wavy, and type 3 for curly, with the letters A, B, and C used as indicators of the degree of coil variation in each type), with the subcategory of type 4C being most exemplary of the
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Published in 2016, the article entitled "African American Personal Presentation: Psychology of Hair and Self Perception" summarized an experimental procedure conducted in America, using data from five urban areas across the country and females ages 18–65. A questionnaire was administered which
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Over the years, natural hair styles and trends have varied from media influences and political climates. The care and styling of natural Black hair has become an enormous industry in the United States. Numerous salons and beauty supply stores cater solely to clients with natural kinky hair.
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and Black pride movements of the 1960s and 1970s, inspired African-Americans to express their political commitments by adopting more traditionally African styles. The Afro hairstyle developed as an affirmation of Black African heritage, expressed by the phrase, "Black is beautiful."
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In this system, "hair functions as a key 'ethnic signifier' because, compared with bodily shape or facial features, it can be changed more easily by cultural practices such as straightening." Racism originally "'politicized' hair by burdening it with a range of negative social and
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that was, and still is, often hidden from the public eye in Western society. Racism 'works' by encouraging the devaluation of self-identity by the victims themselves, and that re-centering of a sense of pride is a prerequisite for a politics of resistance and reconstruction.
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Other styles include the "natural" (also known as a "mini-fro" or "teenie weenie Afro") and "microcoils" for close-cropped hair, the twist-out and braid-out (in which hair is trained in twists or braids before being unravelled), "Brotherlocks" and "Sisterlocks", the
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as other follicle types. Specifically, the average density of kinky hair was found to be approximately 190 hairs per square centimeter. This was significantly lower than that of European hair, which, on average, has approximately 227 hairs per square centimeter.
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Black-owned businesses in the hair-care industry provided jobs for thousands of African-Americans. These business owners gave back strongly to the African-American community. During this time, hundreds of African-Americans became owner-operators of successful
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film which addresses a number of issues pertaining to African-American hair. He explores the styling industry, the variety of styles now acceptable in society for African-American women's hair, and the relations of these to African-American culture.
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A majority of Black hairstyles involve parting the natural hair into individual sections before styling. Research shows that excessive braiding, tight cornrows, relaxing, and vigorous dry-combing of kinky hair can be harmful to the hair and
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demonstration outside of the station, and negotiations, Reed and the station reached an agreement. The company paid her lost salary, and she removed the colored beads. She returned to the air, still braided, but beadless.
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revolutionized hair care by inventing and marketing chemical (and heat-based) applications to alter the natural tightly curled texture. They rapidly became successful and dominated the Black hair care market. In 1898,
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Africans captured as slaves no longer had the sort of resources to practice hair grooming that they had had when home. The enslaved Africans adapted as best they could under the circumstances, finding sheep-fleece
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often-ongoing topic of discussion within the community. The issue is highly debated and disputed, creating almost a social divide within the community between those who decide to be natural and those who do not.
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determined how "African American women internalize beauty and wearing of hair through examination of locus of control and self-esteem."(Ellis-Hervey 879) The results showed a positive correlation between high
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which result in hair breakage, thinning of the hair, slowing of hair growth, scalp damage and even hair loss, according to Gheni Platenurg in the article, "Black Women Returning to Their Natural Hair Roots".
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protein content. Franbourg et al. have found that black hair may differ in the distribution of lipids throughout the hair shaft. Classical kinky hair has been found to be not as densely concentrated on the
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The perception of kinky hair, in the eyes of one with this hair type, may prefer to style their hair in a way that accentuates their racial background or they may conform to a more European hair style.
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Different genetic groups have observable differences in the structure, density, and growth rate of hair. With regard to structure, all human hair has the same basic chemical composition in terms of
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after the girl was criticized for an "unkempt" look. "Even little girls should not be a slave to the preconceived ideas of what a culture believes a little girl should be", the actress said.
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has criticized a trend in her native Kenya that rejects the indigenous Black African physical standards of beauty in favour of those of other communities. In a 2012 interview with the Kenyan
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Imus apologized two days later, after receiving widespread criticism. CBS Radio canceled Don Imus's morning show a week after the incident on April 12, 2007, firing both Imus and McGuirk.
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oath. The Rastafari movement has been so influential in the visibility and subsequent popularity of dreadlocks, throughout the Caribbean and in the global African diaspora, that the term
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appear much shorter when allowed to naturally coil. Shrinkage is most evident when kinky hair is (or has recently been) wet. The more coiled the hair texture, the higher its shrinkage.
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Sales of relaxers took a great fall among African-American women from 2010 to 2015. Many African-American women gave up relaxers to go back to their natural roots. Celebrities like
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Edmondson, Vickie Cox; Carroll, Archie B. (1999). "Giving Back: An Examination of the Philanthropic Motivations, Orientations and Activities of Large Black-Owned Businesses".
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included her negative comments about Black women wearing natural hairstyles in the workplace, calling them "shocking", "inappropriate", and "political". Both the law firm and
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directly on the scalp with a cloth as they carefully parted the hair. Enslaved field hands often shaved their hair and wore hats to protect their scalps against the sun.
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have straight hair, including the earliest hominids. Robbins (2012) suggests that kinky hair may have initially evolved because of an adaptive need amongst humans' early
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and changing styles. Some believe that slaves and later African-Americans absorbed prejudices of the European slaveholders and colonizers, who considered most slaves as
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tribe (in modern Senegal and The Gambia) went to war they wore a braided style. A woman in mourning would either not "do" her hair or adopt a subdued style. Since the
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that cost thousands of dollars and relaxers that take way too much time. Black woman has finally decided that it was simply too much", according to the documentary.
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or knots on the head. Bantu knots can be made from either loose natural hair or dreadlocks. When braided flat against the scalp, natural hair can be worn as basic
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Franbourg; et al. (2007). "Influence of Ethnic Origin of Hair on Water-Keratin Interaction". In Enzo Berardesca; Jean-Luc LĂ©vĂȘque; Howard I. Maibach (eds.).
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locks or fashion locks—have numerous styling options that include strategic parting, sectioning and patterning of the dreads. Popular dreadlocked styles include
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shown that relaxer sales dropped from $ 206 million in 2008 to $ 156 million in 2013. Meanwhile, sales of products for styling natural hair continued to rise.
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The shape of the hair follicle determines the hair's curliness. An individual hair's shape is never completely circular. The cross-section of a hair is an
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t seems that the world is conspiring in preaching that there is something wrong with Kenyan ladies' kinky hair and dark skin Their leaflets are all about
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In many traditional cultures, communal grooming was a social event when women socialized and strengthened bonds with their families. Historically, hair
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music, more non-Black people have begun to wear these hairstyles as well. A new market has developed in such hair products as "Out of Africa" shampoo.
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wore her Afro as a political statement and started a movement toward natural hair. This movement influenced a generation, including celebrities like
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Tishkoff SA, Dietzsch E, Speed W, et al. (March 1996). "Global patterns of linkage disequilibrium at the CD4 locus and modern human origins".
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The Black hair care industry was initially dominated by White-owned businesses. In the late 19th century, African-American entrepreneurs such as
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Lasisi, Tina; Smallcombe, James W.; Kenney, W. Larry; Shriver, Mark D.; Zydney, Benjamin; Jablonski, Nina G.; Havenith, George (13 June 2023).
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here: the price of the ticket (for a journey no one elected to take), the toll of slavery, and the costs remaining. It's all in the hair. Like
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Chaubey G, Metspalu M, Kivisild T, Villems R (January 2007). "Peopling of South Asia: investigating the caste-tribe continuum in India".
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and wearing hair in its natural state. American women have a feeling of empowerment when it comes to wearing their natural hair.
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Ellis-Hervey, Nina; et al. (2016). "African American Personal Presentation: Psychology of Hair and Self-Perception".
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of the sun in Africa. The author argues that kinky hair was the original hair texture of all modern humans prior to the
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Khumalo NP, Gumedze F (September 2007). "African hair length in a school population: a clue to disease pathogenesis?".
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their hair. During the 19th century, hair styling, especially among women, became more popular. Cooking grease such as
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on the ends. KGO called her hairstyle "inappropriate and distracting". After two weeks of a public dispute, an
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Because of the then-prevalent notion that straight wavy or curly hair (which, unlike kinky hair, is common in
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was common among African-American men and boys in the 1980s and has since been replaced in popularity by the
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Oyedemi, Toks (2016). "Beauty as violence: 'beautiful hair' and the cultural violence of identity erasure".
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identity. There have been numerous events in history that have shown disapproval of Black hair styles.
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Since the late 20th century, Black people have experimented with a variety of styles, including
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Scholars debate whether hair-straightening practices arose out of Black desires to conform to a
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have been used in the mid-20th century to describe natural afro-textured hair. More formally,
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This perception is reversed in another experiment, this time performed in the United States.
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include Black Girl Long Hair (BGLH), Curly Nikki and Afro Hair Club. With the emergence of
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tools particularly useful for detangling their hair. They suffered from scalp diseases and
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industrial cities, many African Americans wanted to leave this rural association behind.
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Image of a woman modeling a short and curly hairdo by hair stylist Eddie Mitchell, 1972.
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has become synonymous with a dreadlocked individual. Today, dreadlocks are common among
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mimicking their "masters"', or similar hairstyles, while the women typically plaited or
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have worn natural hair looks. During the same time period, the number of natural-hair
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Thompson, Cheryl (2008). "Black Women and Identity: What's Hair Got to do with it?".
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A 1998 incident became national news when Ruth Ann Sherman, a young White teacher in
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conditions. In rare cases, kinky hair may also be found in populations living under
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Image of a woman modeling a straightened, short hairstyle by Mitch Pasqualie, 1972.
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Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
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has shown what many women go through to achieve the "European standard" of hair. "
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founded a hair care company that offered saponified coconut shampoo and AIDA hair
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is a large, often spherical growth of kinky hair that became popular during the
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Interview by Dr. Victoria Holloway-Barbosa from the documentary on Black hair,
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encouraged an active rejection of European standards of beauty. The resulting
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Human hair texture indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa, Melanesia, and Australia
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and short, cropped hair, specifically designed for kinky hair. Natural hair
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have experimented with ways to style their hair since their arrival in the
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due to their living conditions. Enslaved people used varying remedies for
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movement of the 20th century has maintained that the growth of freeform
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into a dominant, Eurocentric society. Natural hairstyles, such as the
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standard of beauty, or as part of their individual experiments with
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has traditionally been used to moisturize and dress the hair.
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deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a
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Black hairstyles have been utilized to promote the idea of
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invented a method that relaxed textured hair. Photo taken
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correspondent, made national headlines when she wore an
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Kinky hair is a uniquely human characteristic, as most
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