African American Hair: Art, Identity and Resistance

Five panelists explore the historical significance of hair in the African American community. Topics covered include:

The role of barbershops in African American communities
The Afro and dreadlocks as forms of resistance in the African American community and larger African diaspora.
Hair styling as art, self-expression, and identity in pre-colonial Africa and African American communities in North America.
The current repression of African American hairstyles in schools and the workplace.
The cost of not going natural - relaxers, cancer and other health issues.

Panelists include Albertus's own faculty, Dr. Nicola Singh and Dr. Patricia Birungi, as well as Albertus students and alums Nickey Kollie, Joe Glenn and Nkenge Hook.