400 years without a comb / by Willie L. Morrow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morrow, Willie Lee.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hairdressing of African Americans.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 85 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 28 cm

Edition:

Second Edition. Second Printing. Revised Edition.

Other Title:

Four hundred years without a comb

Place of Publication:

San Diego, CA : Morrow's Marketing, Publishing, Research Development Corporation, 1984.

Contents:

The comb, the hair, in Africa

Beginnings of the slave trade

The auctioning block and further degradation

Hair in bondage

The hair care revolution

The role of religion in the hair care revolution

Social class system for Black America

Freedom at last but not from the tyranny of hair == The second hair care revolution

The real black hair care revolution and a comb at last

Beyond the Afro-the culture of the curl

The final chapter.

Notes:

"Revised and enlarged edition of Second Printing."--Preface.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

OCLC:

14994960