Browsing Faculty of Humanities by Subject "Hair as identity"

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Multi-flex neo-hybrid identities : liberatory postmodern and (post) colonial narratives of South African women's hair and the media construction of identity

Le Roux, Janell Marion (2020)

Hair has been a marker of identity that communicates issues of race, acceptability, class and beauty. Evidence of this was during colonialism and apartheid where South African identities were defined by physical characteristics ...