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Review Of Barbara Blake Hannah’s Growing Out: Black hair and Pride in the Swinging Sixties

Title: Growing Out: Black hair and Pride in the Swinging Sixties Author: Barbara Blake Hannah London and Hertfordshire: Hansib Publications, 2010. 168 pages Reviewed by: Mary Hanna (originally in the Jamaica Observer newspaper) Barbara Blake Hannah has written a lively and well documented memoir of her radicalization into a Black identity in the sixties when [...]

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Barbara Blake Hannah – Growing Out: Black Hair and Black Pride in the Swinging Sixties

In August of this year, author/music journalist/film-maker/public speaker Barbara Blake Hannah released the 168-page book Growing Out: Black Hair and Black Pride in the Swinging Sixties. According to Blake-Hannah, the book takes a look at her early years growing up in Jamaica, and how from childhood black women’s hair influenced their self-esteem negatively. She said [...]

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