Examines how hair and hair care take on situated social meanings among African American women in varied linguistic interactions--whether with one another, with

When is hair "just hair" and when is it not "just hair"? Documenting the politics of African American women's hair, this multi-sited linguistic ethnography expl

As winter arrives and the local school closes until summer, the Fairchild children continue their schooling in the parlor with the oldest, Althy, teaching.

An architectural monthly.