Afro Hair in the Time of Slavery

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STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1353/srm.2022.0007

Mathelinda Nabugodi

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Abstract

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.

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奴隶制时代的非洲头发

摘要：在奴隶制时期，欧洲人和非洲人对头发的处理方式截然不同：前者被情感地保存在哀悼的珠宝和纪念品中，后者则被剃掉，为奴隶船做准备。这篇文章考虑了一些头发如何作为种族标记的例子。虽然头发质地被用来建立种族之间的界限，但发型却成为了一个种族污染的地方，当白人“卷曲”头发使其卷曲时，这些界限可能会消失，而黑人则塑造非洲头发以模仿欧洲白人的贵族发型。

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STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM LITERATURE-

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期刊介绍： Studies in Romanticism was founded in 1961 by David Bonnell Green at a time when it was still possible to wonder whether "romanticism" was a term worth theorizing (as Morse Peckham deliberated in the first essay of the first number). It seemed that it was, and, ever since, SiR (as it is known to abbreviation) has flourished under a fine succession of editors: Edwin Silverman, W. H. Stevenson, Charles Stone III, Michael Cooke, Morton Palet, and (continuously since 1978) David Wagenknecht. There are other fine journals in which scholars of romanticism feel it necessary to appear - and over the years there are a few important scholars of the period who have not been represented there by important work.