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Hair Story

Author : Ayana D. Byrd
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466872101
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Hair Story written by Ayana D. Byrd and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “As far as neatly and efficiently chronicling African Americans and the importance of their hair, Hair Story gets to the root of things.” —Philadelphiaweekly.com Hair Story is a historical and anecdotal exploration of Black Americans’ tangled hair roots. A chronological look at the culture and politics behind the ever-changing state of Black hair from fifteenth-century Africa to the present-day United States, it ties the personal to the political and the popular. Read about: Why Black American slaves used items like axle grease and eel skin to straighten their hair. How a Mexican chemist straightened Black hair using his formula for turning sheep’s wool into a minklike fur. How the Afro evolved from militant style to mainstream fashion trend. What prompted the creation of the Jheri curl and the popular style’s fall from grace. The story behind Bo Derek’s controversial cornrows and the range of reactions they garnered. Major figures in the history of Black hair are presented, from early hair-care entrepreneurs Annie Turnbo Malone and Madam C. J. Walker to unintended hair heroes like Angela Davis and Bob Marley. Celebrities, stylists, and cultural critics weigh in on the burgeoning sociopolitical issues surrounding Black hair, from the historically loaded terms “good” and “bad” hair, to Black hair in the workplace, to mainstream society’s misrepresentation and misunderstanding of kinky locks. Hair Story is the book that Black Americans can use as a benchmark for tracing a unique aspect of their history, and it’s a book that people of all races will celebrate as the reference guide for understanding Black hair. “A comprehensive and colorful look at a very touchy subject.” —Essence

The Long and the Short of it

Author : Barbara Meyers
Publisher : Amer Cancer Society
ISBN 13 : 9781604430172
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Long and the Short of it written by Barbara Meyers and published by Amer Cancer Society. This book was released on 2011 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isabel wants her hair to be long while Emma struggles with hair loss due to chemotherapy, but when Isabel hears about hair donation she decides to help.

My Hair

Author : Hannah Lee
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 057134688X
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book My Hair written by Hannah Lee and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My birthday's coming up so soon, I'll need new clothes to wear. But most of all, I need to know, How shall I style my hair? Will it be dreads or a twist out? Braids or a high-top fade? Joyous and vibrant, this captures perfectly the excitement of getting ready for a celebration, as well as showcasing a dazzling array of intricate hairstyles. This is a glorious debut from an exciting new partnership who both emerged from the FAB Prize for undiscovered BAME writers and illustrators.

The Tale of a Hair

Author : Alexander ROSS (Perfumer, the Younger.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Tale of a Hair written by Alexander ROSS (Perfumer, the Younger.) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hair Story

Author : Ayana Byrd
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312283223
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Hair Story written by Ayana Byrd and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-01-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the culture and politics behind the ever-changing state of black hair - from 15th century Africa to present-day US - this fascinating book is an entertaining look at the intersection of the personal, political and popular aspects of hair styles, tracing a unique aspect of black American history. An entertaining and concise survey... A book that successfully balances popular appeal with historical accuracy' - Publishers Weekly 'Impressive work of cultural history' - Book Page 'Comprehensive and colourful' - Essence'

An Enchanted Hair Tale

Author : Alexis De Veaux
Publisher : Harper Trophy
ISBN 13 : 9780064432719
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book An Enchanted Hair Tale written by Alexis De Veaux and published by Harper Trophy. This book was released on 1991-09-13 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sudan suffers from the general ridicule of his strange-looking hair, until he comes to accept and enjoy its enchantment.

Africa Hair

Author : Charlotte Hahn
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1467071102
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Africa Hair written by Charlotte Hahn and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belle struggles with the fact that she looks different from the other girls in her class. When her father finds out how she feels, he tells Belle a story about her family and her African heritage from Sierra Leon, in the hope that she will feel unique, special, and proud of who she is.

Hair Raising Stories

Author : Jean Breton
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440162603
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Hair Raising Stories written by Jean Breton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " HAIR RAISING STORIES" is a book about a number of my experiences as a hairdresser. Being in the business for twenty seven years, I have encountered many walks of life that have come through the salon door and have sat in my chair. The stories are all true, ( believe me, I`d be hard pressed to make half this stuff up!) Although geared toward hair dressers world wide, it has universal appeal. There are many lessons to be learned throughout life and many lessons I have learned by working with the public and through my clients themselves. Many are humorous and will tickle the funny bone, while others will pull and tug at the heart. The reader will be drawn in and know they are not alone as they will be able to relate to some or most of the stories.

The Gift of the Magi

Author : O. Henry
Publisher : Amila Jay
ISBN 13 : 3986779213
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The Gift of the Magi written by O. Henry and published by Amila Jay. This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been popular for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time.

Claire's Hair

Author : Mary Bleckwehl
Publisher : Beaver's Pond Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592988006
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Claire's Hair written by Mary Bleckwehl and published by Beaver's Pond Press. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claire's hair is red, long, and fantastically hilarious. Her best friend Albert thinks so too. They use it to jump rope; they swing through the jungle on it; they even use it to tie up the neighborhood "robbers"--and you can bet there are a lot of those! The result is fun, frolicking laughter for the two BFFs. But Claire's hair is also wild, tangled, dirty (she hasn't washed it since June!), and just plain crazy. Mothers don't care for that and Claire's is no exception. When Albert gets sick and goes to the hospital, Claire misses him and the laughter. Once he comes home, he looks sad. Claire performs "hair tricks" to cheer him but nothing works. When she discovers he lost his hair from medicine he had to take, Claire gets a BIG hairy idea. She knows about donating hair for those who need it and heads to the salon to have hers cut. She donates half of it and brings the other half to Albert, who uses it in ways that make him laugh again. So it's true. Laughter is the best medicine!

Hair Love

Author : Matthew A. Cherry
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241406439
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book Hair Love written by Matthew A. Cherry and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the Oscar winning short film! It's up to Daddy to give his daughter an extra-special hair style in this story of self-confidence and the love between fathers and daughters. Zuri knows her hair is beautiful, but it has a mind of its own! It kinks, coils, and curls every which way. Mum always does Zuri's hair just the way she likes it - so when Daddy steps in to style it for an extra special occasion, he has a lot to learn. But he LOVES his Zuri, and he'll do anything to make her - and her hair - happy. Tender and empowering, Hair Love is an ode to loving your natural hair - and a celebration of daddies and daughters everywhere.

That Hair

Author : Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 1947793500
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book That Hair written by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2021 PEN Translation Prize A Best Translation of the Year at World Literature Today That Hair is a family album of sorts that touches upon the universal subjects of racism, feminism, colonialism, immigration, identity and memory. “The story of my curly hair,” says Mila, the narrator of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s autobiographically inspired tragicomedy, “intersects with the story of at least two countries and, by extension, the underlying story of the relations among several continents: a geopolitics.” Mila is the Luanda-born daughter of a black Angolan mother and a white Portuguese father. She arrives in Lisbon at the tender age of three, and feels like an outsider from the jump. Through the lens of young Mila’s indomitably curly hair, her story interweaves memories of childhood and adolescence, family lore spanning four generations, and present-day reflections on the internal and external tensions of a European and African identity. In layered and luscious prose, That Hair enriches and deepens a global conversation, challenging in necessary ways our understanding of racism, feminism, and the double inheritance of colonialism, not yet fifty years removed from Angola’s independence. It’s the story of coming of age as a black woman in a nation at the edge of Europe that is also rapidly changing, of being considered an outsider in one’s own country, and the impossibility of “returning” to a homeland one doesn’t in fact know.

Kissing the Witch

Author : Emma Donoghue
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0064407721
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book Kissing the Witch written by Emma Donoghue and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1999-02-27 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with luminous voices that shimmer with sensuality and truth, these age-old characters shed their antiquated cloaks to travel a seductive new landscape, radiantly transformed.Cinderella forsakes the handsome prince and runs off with the fairy godmother; Beauty discovers the Beast behind the mask is not so very different from the face she sees in the mirror; Snow White is awakened from slumber by the bittersweet fruit of an unnamed desire. Acclaimed writer Emma Donoghue spins new tales out of old in a magical web of thirteen interconnected stories about power and transformation and choosing one's own path in the world. In these fairy tales, women young and old tell their own stories of love and hate, honor and revenge, passion and deception. Using the intricate patterns and oral rhythms of traditional fairy tales, Emma Donoghue wraps age-old characters in a dazzling new skin. 2000 List of Popular Paperbacks for YA

Beethoven's Hair

Author : Russell Martin
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767910818
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Beethoven's Hair written by Russell Martin and published by Crown. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis for the movie of the same name, an astonishing tale of one lock of hair and its amazing travels--from nineteenth-century Vienna to twenty-first-century America. When Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great composer, snipping a lock of Beethoven's hair as a keepsake--as was custom at the time--in the process. For a century, the lock of hair was a treasured Hiller family relic, until it somehow found its way to the town of Gilleleje, in Nazi-occupied Denmark. There, it was given to a local doctor, Kay Fremming, who was deeply involved in the effort to help save hundreds of hunted and frightened Jews. After Fremming's death, his daughter assumed ownership of the lock, and eventually consigned it for sale at Sotheby's, where two American Beethoven enthusiasts, Ira Brilliant and Che Guevara, purchased it in 1994. Subsequently, they and others instituted a series of complex forensic tests in the hope of finding the probable causes of the composer's chronically bad health, his deafness, and the final demise that Ferdinand Hiller had witnessed all those years ago. The results, revealed for the first time here, are the most compelling explanation yet offered for why one of the foremost musicians the world has ever known was forced to spend much of his life in silence. In Beethoven's Hair, Russell Martin has created a rich historical treasure hunt, a tale of false leads, amazing breakthroughs, and incredible revelations. This unique and fascinating book is a moving testament to the power of music, the lure of relics, the heroism of the Resistance movement, and the brilliance of molecular science.

Don't Touch My Hair!

Author : Sharee Miller
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316484083
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Don't Touch My Hair! written by Sharee Miller and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining picture book that teaches the importance of asking for permission first as a young girl attempts to escape the curious hands that want to touch her hair. It seems that wherever Aria goes, someone wants to touch her hair. In the street, strangers reach for her fluffy curls; and even under the sea, in the jungle, and in space, she's chased by a mermaid, monkeys, and poked by aliens . . . until, finally, Aria has had enough! Author-illustrator Sharee Miller takes the tradition of appreciation of black hair to a new, fresh, level as she doesn't seek to convince or remind young readers that their curls are beautiful -- she simply acknowledges black beauty while telling a fun, imaginative story.

Twisted

Author : Emma Dabiri
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062966731
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Twisted written by Emma Dabiri and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus Best Book of the Year Stamped from the Beginning meets You Can't Touch My Hair in this timely and resonant essay collection from Guardian contributor and prominent BBC race correspondent Emma Dabiri, exploring the ways in which black hair has been appropriated and stigmatized throughout history, with ruminations on body politics, race, pop culture, and Dabiri’s own journey to loving her hair. Emma Dabiri can tell you the first time she chemically straightened her hair. She can describe the smell, the atmosphere of the salon, and her mix of emotions when she saw her normally kinky tresses fall down her shoulders. For as long as Emma can remember, her hair has been a source of insecurity, shame, and—from strangers and family alike—discrimination. And she is not alone. Despite increasingly liberal world views, black hair continues to be erased, appropriated, and stigmatized to the point of taboo. Through her personal and historical journey, Dabiri gleans insights into the way racism is coded in society’s perception of black hair—and how it is often used as an avenue for discrimination. Dabiri takes us from pre-colonial Africa, through the Harlem Renaissance, and into today's Natural Hair Movement, exploring everything from women's solidarity and friendship, to the criminalization of dreadlocks, to the dubious provenance of Kim Kardashian's braids. Through the lens of hair texture, Dabiri leads us on a historical and cultural investigation of the global history of racism—and her own personal journey of self-love and finally, acceptance. Deeply researched and powerfully resonant, Twisted proves that far from being only hair, black hairstyling culture can be understood as an allegory for black oppression and, ultimately, liberation.

Mira's Curly Hair

Author : Maryam Al Serkal
Publisher : Lantana Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1913747050
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Mira's Curly Hair written by Maryam Al Serkal and published by Lantana Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mira doesn't like her hair. It curls at the front. It curls at the back. It curls everywhere! She wants it to be straight and smooth, just like her Mama's. But then something unpredictable happens . . . and Mira will never look at her mama's hair the same way again! A delightful celebration of natural hair and the courage it takes to be yourself.