Hot comb

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Flowers, Ebony
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English
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9781770463486
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Grouping Categorycomic
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"Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into Black women's lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular story "Hot Comb" is about a young girl's first perm--a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming "too white" in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved to. In "Virgin Hair" taunts of "tender-headed" sting as much as the perm itself. It's a scenario that repeats fifteen years later as an adult when, tired of the maintenance, Flowers shaves her head only to be hurled new put-downs. Realizations about race, class, and the imperfections of identity swirl through Flowers' stories and ads, which are by turns sweet, insightful, and heartbreaking."--
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9781770463486
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2019
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Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc
Comics (Graphic works)
Hair -- Social aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc
Hairdressing of Blacks -- Comic books, strips, etc
Hairdressing of Blacks -- Social aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc
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Women, Black -- Race identity -- Comic books, strips, etc
Women, Black -- Social life and customs -- Comic books, strips, etc
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Beauty, Personal
Hair
Hairdressing of Blacks
Race identity
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Social life and customs
Women, Black

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