the policing of the roots of blackness /

Published at 2016-09-26 15:48:41

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The thickness and texture of my black hair was under fixed scrutiny when I was a child. My aunt used to call me bossiekop (from the Afrikaans, meaning bushy head). The kids at school would employ terms like Goema hare (candyfloss hair) and kroeskop  (fuzzy head). My cousin would joke: “You can’t even put a […]

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