Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America (By Ayana D. Byrd, Lori L. Tharps)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/392745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America Author: Ayana D. Byrd, Lori L. Tharps Narrator: Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release date: September 10, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Fitness, Diet & Nutrition Publisher's Summary: Two world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. From the antebellum practice of shaving the head in an attempt to pass as a 'free' person to the 2013 uproar over an Ohio school that banned Afro puffs, the issues surrounding Black hair continue to linger as we move through the twenty-first century. Tying the personal to the political and the popular, Hair Story takes a chronological look at the culture behind the ever-changing state of Black hair—from fifteenth-century Africa to the present-day United States. Hair Story is the book Black Americans can use as a benchmark for tracing a unique aspect of their history, and that people of any background will celebrate as the reference guide for understanding Black hair.