In a change to our usual offering, the coming week's presentation will take place on Thursday, 1-2pm (Ground Floor Seminar Room, Graduate School, 7 Woodland Road). Elizabeth Robles presents on:
'good' hair, 'bad' hair
'good' hair, 'bad' hair
In this paper, I aim to explore the role of hair and hairstyling in roti moti s 1995 multimedia performance project entitled Wigs of Wonderment and Sonia Boyce s work from the same year, Black Female Hairstyles. I will engage these works to begin unpacking the discourse of good versus bad hair and assert that hair is a potent site for the negotiation, inversion and subversion of fixed notions of race, gender, the authentic 'then' and the postmodern 'now', and the mainstream and the marginal.
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