Anthologies of African American Writing

Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories

"Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories" . Ed. Juliette Harris and Pamela Johnson. New York: Pocket Books, 2001. xviii+302 pp.

Peace be still / Ntozake Shange -- Madam C.J. Walker : let me correct the erroneous impression that I claim to straighten hair / A'lelia Bundles -- The hairdresser and the scholar / Mark Higbee -- Severed /Annabelle Baker -- It all comes down to the kitchen / Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- The kink that winked / Cynthia Colbert -- Tenderheaded, or, Rejecting the legacy of being able to take it / Meg Henson Scales -- Baby hair / Constance Nichols -- A day at the beach / Kay Brown -- Learning the language of my daughter's hair / Peter Harris -- Hair (r)evolution / Cynthia Colbert -- Things my mother never taught me / Jacquelyn Long -- Tenderheaded / Nikky Finney -- Cornrow calculations, or Math is beauty / Toni Wynn.; Fake / Gerrie Summers -- Planet hair / Lisa Jones -- Hair braiding, Miss? / Taiia Smart -- Madam speaks / Mark Richard Moss -- Relax your mind! / Jenyne M. Raines -- When black hair tangles with white power / Mariame Kaba -- Hot comb / Natasha Trethewey -- Straightening our hair / Bell Hooks -- A Rio crime / Laura Sullivan -- A short history of early hair straightening / Willie Morrow -- All-time top hair divas / Jenyne Raines -- Under cover / Halima Taha -- Grandma blows her top / Gloria Wade Gayles -- Uplift / Liddy Jones -- Bandanna / Michael D. Harris -- The culture of hair sculpture / Juliette Harris -- If you let me make love to you, then why can't I touch your hair? / Cherilyn "Liv" Wright -- Battle of the wigs / George C. Wolfe -- White boyfriend / Evangeline Wheeler -- Hagar's blues / Toni Morrison -- Dekar's touch / Pamela Johnson.; The curse (and redemption) of short hair / Thomas "Taiwo" Duvall -- Hair hysteria / S. Pearl Sharp -- Afro images : politics, fashion and nostalgia / Angela Y. Davis -- Daughters of Africa / Evangeline Wheeler -- On short nappy hair and the business of blackness : from Ohio to South Africa / Paitra D. Russell -- Smooth heated stones and sunlight soap / Rosalie Kiah -- Crowning glories : hair, head, style, and substance in Yoruba culture / Photos and text by Henry John Drewal -- No longer stranded / Idara E. Bassey.; My smart gray streak / Yvonne Durant -- Attitude at seventy-five / Naomi Long Madgett -- In her hair / S. Pearl Sharp -- Homage to my hair / Lucille Clifton -- Something's lost in living every day / Leatha Simmons Mitchell -- She who mirrors me / Ruby Dee -- Gray strands / Naomi Long Madgett -- Don't even pretend (the Saturn poem) / Peter Harris -- In the kitchen / Jewelle Gomez -- The call / Tamara Jeffries -- Clean break / Jill Nelson -- My bold black statement / Susan L. Taylor -- Post-traumatic tress syndrome / Denise L. Davis, M.D. -- In sickness and in health / Frankie Alexander -- Oppressed hair puts a ceiling on the brain / Alice Walker -- A happy nappy hair-care affair / Linda Jones.

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