Ayana D. Byrd graduated from Barnard College and is coeditor of Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, as well as magazines including Glamour, Essence, and Rolling Stone.
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Two world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. From the antebellum practice of shaving the head in an attempt to pass as a 'free' person to the 2... SEE MORE