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2. Dreadlocks - Wikipedia

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   Dreadlocks. Cree chief Pitikwahanapiwiyin with locked hair, 1885. Dreadlocks, also known as dreads or locs, are a hairstyle made of rope-like strands of hair. This is done by not combing the hair and allowing it to mat naturally or by twisting it manually.

3. African-American hair - Wikipedia

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   The ban includes dreadlocks, large cornrows and twists. [77] The rationale for this decision is that the aforementioned hairstyles look unkempt. [77] African-American women in the Army may be forced to choose between small cornrows and chemically processing their hair, if their natural hair is not long enough to fit a permitted hairstyle. [77]

4. Discrimination based on hair texture - Wikipedia

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   t. e. Discrimination based on hair texture, also known as textureism, is a form of social injustice, where afro-textured hair or coarse hair types, and their associated hair styles, are viewed negatively, often perceived as "unprofessional", "unattractive", or "unclean". [1][2][3] This view can lead, for example, to some school students being ...

5. Why Safiya Sinclair cut her dreadlocks and wrote a memoir of ...

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   Beyond “How to Say Babylon,” Sinclair is working on a new poetry collection and drafting her first novel, which she describes as an epic covering 500 years of Jamaican history, from Columbus ...

6. Cornrows - Wikipedia

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   Cornrows (sometimes called canerows) are a style of traditionally three-strand braids, originating in Africa, [1][2][3] in which the hair is braided very close to the scalp, using an underhand, upward motion to make a continuous, raised row. Cornrows are often done in simple, straight lines, as the term implies, but they can also be styled in ...

7. Dreadlocks, cornrows and natural hairstyles could get new ...

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   “In particular, schools must permit protective, natural, or cultural hairstyles, including but not limited to such hairstyles as braids, dreadlocks, locs, twists, tight curls or cornrows, Bantu ...

8. Kinky hair - Wikipedia

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   Papuan women with kinky hair. Kinky hair is a uniquely human characteristic, as most mammals have straight hair, including the earliest hominids. [10] Robbins (2012) suggests that kinky hair may have initially evolved because of an adaptive need amongst humans' early hominid ancestors for protection against the intense UV radiation of the sun in Africa. [11]

9. Dread perming - Wikipedia

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   Dread perming is a chemical treatment that is used both by beauty salons and do-it-yourselfers to create or maintain dreadlocks. The hair is exposed to chemicals that render the hair frizzy. The frizzy hair is bound together and treated again to form the dreadlocks. Dread perms usually cost in the range of $300–$400 at a salon, and although ...