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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Black Hair"”.
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Black hair politics : the representation of African women on True Love magazine front covers and hair advertisements
… extensive research on the representation of black women. However, most of these studies have been conducted in the West; only a few have been done in Africa in general and in South Africa in particular. To address this gap, I use quantitative content and visual semiotic analysis to examine …
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TO CURL UP OR RELAX? THAT IS THE QUESTION: TENURED BLACK FEMALE FACULTY NAVIGATION OF BLACK HAIR EXPRESSION IN ACADEMIA
… professional, neat, or appropriate appearance is Black hair. Although Black hair expression is frequent in media, politics, and pop culture, there still remains a perceived stigma surrounding its presence in positions and environments (e.g. tenure positions or predominantly White institutions) …
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What do I do with my hair? Identity, performance and social representations of Black hair in women of colour in England and Germany
The Natural Hair Movement is changing how women of colour make sense of their hair and what they do with their hair. By encouraging women of colour to embrace the natural – afro, kinky or curly – texture of their hair, the Natural Hair Movement produces social representations of natural hair that …
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Wired & dangerous: hacks, hair extensions and other twists on traditional technical communication
… step-by-step instructions for hacking), and Black Hair Media, a virtual DIY hair extension community with an explicitly Afro Centric twist. Retaining characteristics of traditional proprietary technical communication and the "malleable, animated and visually complex" forms of communication …
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Recognizing Whiteness: An Autoethnographic Examination of Whiteness in My Life
… me from developing a rich understanding of Black culture, particularly the cultural significance of Black hair. This work prompted me to question the extent to which my conception of “safety” while travelling was, in fact, a coded interpretation of white superiority. In hopes of appealing to …
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Travelling hair pains of the past: The continued impact of colonialism on the construction of black women's hair
The study of Black women's hair politics is recent. It refers to the existing social discussions and analyses of Black women's hair by Black women. And focuses on Black women's racial, gendered, political, and personal experiences with their hair. It explores how their views relate to dominant …
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Sites of migrant landing: (un)braiding topographies of relations across hair salons in Mowbray
This dissertation explores hair salons in Mowbray as a node for landing amongst African migrant women who have settled in Cape Town, are arriving or in transition. To land is to set foot and to find grounding, and it is also to contend with borders. Therefore, to conceptualise the hair salon as a …
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Hair analysis for drugs of abuse
This thesis covers a range of important issues in hair analysis and includes 27 scientific works in which the name of the candidate was either listed as the first author or as the major contributor. The work presented in this thesis involved the development of a series of analytical methods to …
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Evaluating the impact of ultraviolet light on chemical and mechanical properties of human scalp hair through controlled and natural experiments
Introduction: Human hair fibres have been studied in a variety of fields for different applications. Examples include the use of hair as a medical testing substrate for diagnosis of pathologies, as a tool for forensic investigations, a substrate for cosmetic product development and as a precursor …
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21st century Black beauty resistance: Collectivism, individuality, and in/visibility in Black women’s writing
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Combating Hair Related Barriers to Physical Activity Among African American Female Adolescents with Yoga
Black and African American adolescent girls have a disproportionate prevalence of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease when compared to any other ethnic group. Data from previous studies have determined that hair harassment and hair care maintenance are explicit barriers to physical activity …
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The Return: Understanding why Black Women Choose to "Go Natural"
… this study is to analyze and understand why some Black women in Greensboro, North Carolina have made the decision to wear their hair naturally, in its original kinky, curly, non-straightened form. I’ve chosen this topic because “in our society, long straight hair has generally been considered the …
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I survived: Brush your hair 100 times a night and it’ll grow into an art education
… this, I began to think of how the practice of hair care can be translated in order to reframe the practice of learning. Learning about one’s hair is a continuous process and happens alongside any other education that happens, so I think that using that with art education in this context, is a …