The Hair Tales - Project by Michaela Angela Davis

The Hair Tales is a collection of Hair Stories from Black Women collected by Michaela Angela Davis with the idea to look at Black Women's identity through the lens of hair and to affirm it.

2 series are visible online: The Parlor Series and the Kitchen Table Talks

Here is how she present it on the website consacred to the project - MAD FREE Website (click):
The Hair Tales is created to affirm Black Women, inform non-Black people about Black Women and inspire the world through Black women’s beautiful curly, kinky and coily journey.

After nearly 5 years of analyzing the senseless relentless Black death on CNN and other public

Huffingtonpost “blog” - Black Hair

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/my-natural-hair-journey/

Articles about black hair, mostly natural hair (perception, tips, cultural appropriation, story,…) by black women mostly

#Culture #Politique #Genre 

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Good Hair by Chris Rock

(Click for the Trailer)

About black hair culture and its different significations and implications (social, political, cultural, economical). About extensions, relaxer, wigs, natural hair,…

A serious subject treated with humor.

#Society #Economy #Culture #Politic 

#BlackHair #Extension #Wig #Straight #Relaxer

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The Politics of Black Women's Hair by Althea Prince

The Politics of Black Women's Hair 

by Althea Prince

(2010)

Dr. Althea Prince follows up her earlier collection of essays (Being Black) on Black cultural life with this important new collection. This book sensitively charts Black women's journeys with their hair: how it is perceived, judged, and graded on the yardstick of mainstream society's standards of beauty. Relying on the tradition of the personal essay, and conversations with several Black women, Prince delves into "the politics of Black women's hair," specifically examining the impact on the emotional lives of Black girls and women. Incorporating her own voice as a mother and a sociologist, and memories of her own childhood experiences with her hair, Prince provides an understanding of how some Black women use rituals surrounding hair to create positive bonds with their daughters. She suggests that something beautiful can be nourished in the realm of Spirit between a woman and her daughter when they sit in quiet to attend to hair combing and hair grooming. Including interviews with women from Canada, the Caribbean, England, the United States of America, and South America, Dr. Prince brings an international perspective to this very personal subject.

Book Review by People with Voices (click)

#Politics #Culture #Gender
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Hair Story by Kacy-Ann: To be Black & Free !!

No one combed my hair on a regular basis so it was relaxed at a very young age, then jerry curls (it grew) then relaxed again, it never grew. Did the big chop Aug.17.16 and it is quite lovely. Soft, wild and free. Fit for a Gemini like me. Struggling to maintain it but it is definitively worth it. To be Black & Free !!)

Kacy-Ann, 21, Female, Jamaica

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