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Don't Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri, Esther Cruz is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Don't Touch My Hair about?

'Groundbreaking, rich, heartbreaking . . . a highly charged history' Guardian Straightened. Stigmatised. 'Tamed'. Celebrated. Erased. Managed. Appropriated. Forever misunderstood. Black hair is never 'just hair'. This book is about why black hair matters. 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.

Who reads Don't Touch My Hair?

Author

Emma Dabiri, Esther Cruz

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd;Allen Lane

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780141986296

Category

children's

Subjects

Children'S, Juvenile

Rating

4.9 / 5 (1,531 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14