Abstract
On Scandal, Kerry Washington starred as Olivia Pope. She is a political “fixer” who-in the early seasons of the show-happened to be having an affair with the President of the United States...
Highlights
These days, Black girl hair is all over the place! Certainly, the styles donned by women in the black world spans from short naturals, to cornrows, braided extensions, perms, weaves, dreadlocks, and what I call “funky flowing ‘fros.” I should know, as I’ve worn my type 4-c hair in each of these styles at various points in the past decade
Black girl hair has highly visible in popular culture in the past few years-perhaps this is the Michelle Obama effect? For an academic, I consider myself something of a television aficionado (I call myself that to avoid the label of nighttime “couch potato”)
Gabrielle Union starred on Being Mary Jane as a highly visible anchorwoman on a cable news network who makes terrible decisions in her personal life
Summary
Kaifa Roland L* University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, USA *Corresponding author: L Kaifa Roland, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, USA These days, Black girl hair is all over the place (pun intended)! Some of my favorite shows over the last few years were Scandal (ABC), How to Get Away with Murder (ABC), and Being Mary Jane (BET). Yes, they are outrageous and dramatic and fictional, but they feature powerful black women as lead characters and-given that I have long contemplated an ethnographic project is on black women’s hair practices in Cuba-I cannot get enough of what is being done with their hair!
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