Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Communication Studies) by Subject "Hair"

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A critical analysis of phenomenological narratives of coloured females about their hair, race and identity in Polokwane, Limpopo Province, South Africa

Reineke, Domanique (2025)

During apartheid South Africa, one of the imperatives of the Coloured identity was to be White in mind, spirit, and appearance to benefit from the socio-economic privileges associated with Whiteness. This included ...
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 ...

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