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Beauty In a Box: Detangling the Roots of Canada’s Black Beauty Culture
Review by Evelyn C. White
Dr. Cheryl Thompson
2019
In her 1987 essay “Oppressed Hair Puts a Ceiling on the Brain,” writer Alice Walker extolled the beauty of natural hair and ventured that Black women can attain “spiritual liberation” by rejecting straightened, chemically “relaxed” or other hair styles such as extensions or weaves. She later read the piece at a gathering of Black women who sported (mainly) straightened hair.
“You can imagine how that went over,” recalled a woman I later interviewed who attended the event. Fast-forward thirty years and Cheryl Thompson likewise explores the often-charged relationship between Black women and their hair in