Hair in African Art and Culture

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  Acknowledgments                                           ix
  1  Kinky Living in a Straight World: 
                             A Prelude to Hair               1
  2  Down-to-There Hair: A Brief 
                       History of Hair Crisis in America     6
  3  Uncommon Pains: Tales of African Hair in America       37
  4  Clear and Smooth as a Baby's                           85
  5  Sheitl Mayses (Wig Stories)                           138
  6  So Long as Their Hair Was On                          167
   
  Epilogue Naming Names:
  An Afternoon at the Hair Club 
                       Headquarters in Boca Raton          218
  Selected Bibliography                                    231