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Sometimes, I straighten: my journey with my hair has shown me how much ethnic identity is entangled in aesthetics.(to the point)
Suheir Hammad starts her book, Drops of This Story, by cutting off her hair--the hair that had been as much a part of her aesthetic as the nose on her face. "I told her to chop it all off. I didn't want the weight of it bending my neck no more. Didn't want to recognize myself. The hair stylist fought me on it. She said it would be a sin to shear off all those thick curls. Did I know how many people would kill for my hair? Did I care? She cut it off. All of it," Suheir writes. Hair plays a big part in this coming-of-age memoir. First times are marked in terms of her hair--the first time she straightened it, cut it, wrapped it. She recalls the first time she had to fight ...
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