Beginning the Walk | p. 9 |
journeying from the core | |
Rituals | p. 27 |
touch a black woman's hair | |
"Who I Am Is in My Hair | p. 39" |
Guest Essay | |
Conversations with Young Black Women in Toronto | p. 53 |
my conclusions from eyewitnessing, listening, and sometimes listening-in | |
Anonymous | p. 55 |
Taija Ryan | p. 61 |
Maxine Clarke | p. 68 |
Conversations with Mothers of Black Girls | p. 71 |
Veronica Ciandre | p. 73 |
Skira Martinez | p. 79 |
Elaine Nash and daughters, Nina and Raina | p. 81 |
Andrea Oliver | p. 90 |
Glenda Prince | p. 95 |
Itah Sadu | p. 98 |
Embodying the Hair on Our Heads | p. 102 |
versions of hair: | |
good hair | |
bad hair | |
coarse hair | |
nappy hair | |
black consciousness | p. 106 |
about Jennifer Lopez and Beyoncé Knowles | p. 111 |
me ah say ah one man | p. 112 |
stories held in the heart | p. 113 |
bliss in a straight-hair world | p. 115 |
Barbara Walters and black women's hair | p. 119 |
Dread and the Baldhead | p. 121 |
Althea Prince is in the house | p. 124 |
women with man-head | p. 125 |
Stokely Carmichael and Miriam Makeba | p. 127 |
from epiphany to action | p. 130 |
Michelle Obama, The First Lady of the United States of America | p. 137 |
musings on the media, sister-black women, and Michelle Obama's hair | |
plus, Chris Rock discovers his daughter wants "good hair" | |
To Locks or not to Locks | p. 147 |
email correspondence with my niece Janis | |
And Look What the Future Hath Wrought | p. 153 |
Poem | |
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