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2. Wig - Wikipedia

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   Women mainly powdered their hair grey, or blue-ish grey, and from the 1770s onwards never bright white like men. Wig powder was made from finely ground starch that was scented with orange flower, lavender, or orris root. Wig powder was occasionally colored violet, blue, pink or yellow, but was most often off-white. [17]

3. African-American hair - Wikipedia

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   As with women, African American men have also faced hairstyle-based discrimination in the workplace. In the case of Thornton v. Encore Global, [75] Jeffery Thornton, a black man sued his former employer Encore Global denying him a job as a technical supervisor after working for the company for four years. [75]

4. Afro - Wikipedia

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   The afro became a powerful political symbol which reflected black pride and a rejection of notions of assimilation and integration—not unlike the long and untreated hair sported by the mainly White hippies. [2] [6] [7] To some African Americans, the afro also represented a reconstitutive link to West Africa and Central Africa. [3]

5. ‘Men in wigs and brown make-up taking stunt jobs from black ...

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   “Men wearing wigs and using brown make-up” are depriving black women and members of other ethnic groups of top stunt roles in movies, according to a new study. Dr Laura Crossley, a researcher ...

6. What Symone Sanders’ New Show Means for Bald Black Women - AOL

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   Black women for years have been subconsciously coerced by pervasive sexism and racism into spending a fortune on haircare products to avoid “short nappy hair” or in this case, being bald. And ...

7. Laid edges - Wikipedia

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   The inspiration for this style is attributed to the kiss curls sported by women in the 1920s, such as African American performer, activist, and style icon Josephine Baker. The modern laid edges style began in the 1990s in the African American community, popularized by major musicians of the period such as Chilli from TLC [ 1 ] [ 2 ] as well as ...