

Twisted
The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture
Author: Emma Dabiri
Narrator: Emma Dabiri
Unabridged: 7 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 06/23/2020
Author: Emma Dabiri
Narrator: Emma Dabiri
Unabridged: 7 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 06/23/2020
Emma Dabiri is a regular presenter on BBC and contributor for The Guardian. She is a teaching fellow in the Africa department at SOAS and a Visual Sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths. Her writing has been published in a number of anthologies, academic journals, and the national press. She lives in London.
4.5 Stars. What a powerful book! I mean if you know anything about the Black hair experience than you know how phenomenal this book is Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture is Emma Dabiri's take and insight to the complex world that is Black hair. This book not only focuses on her own pe......more
Intelligent, thoughtful and thought-provoking, I found this a truly riveting read. It’s an exploration of black women’s (mainly) hair and for me it was jaw-dropping and eye-opening (to mix metaphors) at the same time. I never realised that hair could be such a complex, multi-layered and political su......more
As a young child, I spent long hours on the floor wedged between the strong legs of strangers, my head cradled in their lap. These early childhood memories are vague in detail but strong in atmosphere. Emma Dabiri left no stones unturned with regards to the history of Black Hair culture and how it......more
KNOWLEDGE!! What a fantastic book that is so eye-opening and captivating, and so, so well put together. The way Emma Dabiri has managed to write a book that is themed around hair -specifically hair of a black woman - and connect it to so many issues today such as racism of old, systematic racism now,......more
I was not expecting this to be both a cultural history of a beauty object standard (e.g. hair) and a history of ideas! This book wove in various African philosophical traditions around time, community, work, and so many other things in contrast to how European culture views those things, and then sy......more