Nabugodi, Mathelinda;
(2022)
Afro Hair in the Time of Slavery.
Studies in Romanticism
, 61
(1)
pp. 79-89.
10.1353/srm.2022.0007.
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Abstract
Treatment of European and African hair radically differed in the time of slavery: the former sentimentally preserved in mourning jewelry and keepsakes, the latter shaved off in preparation for the slave-ship hold. This essay considers some examples of how hair functioned as a racial marker. While hair texture was used to establish boundaries between races, hair styling emerged a site of racial contamination where these boundaries threatened to dissolve as white people "frizzled" their hair to make it curly, while Black people shaped their Afro hair so as to mimic the aristocratic hairstyles of white Europeans.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Afro Hair in the Time of Slavery |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1353/srm.2022.0007 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1353/srm.2022.0007 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Hair Culture, Race, the Middle Passage, William Blake, Edward Long, Scientific Taxonomy |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10180030 |
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