Abstract
ABSTRACT This report uses the interview form as a methodology for a postcolonial research project. The author, photographer Tau Battice, made portraits of 150 women in Brazil, also interviewing them about their hair experiences. These interviews and photographs serve as a supporting methodological tool in a larger ethnographic project concerning topics such as Blackness, chemically straightened versus natural hair, conflict between reality and image, and decolonization of the mind. A cross-section of Brazilian women of self-identified West African descent explain their changing relationship to their hair and how this impacts their subjectivities. Drawing upon Frantz Fanon and several anthropologists and ethnographers, the project investigates how natural hair was seen as “bad” by friends and family who are influenced by the white male gaze. The photographic images are a visual language of these women expressing pride in their African roots and making peace with their natural hair.
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