Despite increasingly liberal worldviews, black hair continues to be erased, appropriated and stigmatized to the point of taboo. Through her personal and historical journey, debari offers insights into the way racism is coded in society's perception of black hair and how it is often used as an avenue for discrimination. Debari takes us from precolonial Africa through the Harlem Renaissance and into today's natural hair movement, exploring everything from women's solidarity and friendship to the criminalization of dreadlocks to the dubious provenance of Kim Kardashian's