Beauty In a Box: Detangling the Roots of Canada's Black Beauty
Dr. Cheryl Thompson Wilfried Laurier University Press, 311 pages, $29.59 2019 In her 1987 essay “Oppressed Hair Puts a Ceiling on the Brain,” writer Alice Walker extolled the beauty of natural hair and ventured that Black women can attain “spiritual liberation” by rejecting straightened, chemically “relaxed” or other hair styles such as extensions or weaves. […]
Detangling the roots and health risks of hair relaxers
Exploring the history behind black beauty culture, Professor Cheryl Thompson explores the history behind black hair and beauty through a Canadian lens., By The Social
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