Hair trip

  • Hairs/Pelitos by Sandra Cisneros

    Book Description: Everybody in our family has different hair/ Todos en nuestra familia tenemos pelo diferente, begins this rhythmic, bilingual picture book taken from acclaimed novelist/short-story writer Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street. Ybanez expands upon the diversity theme by rendering the family members in a variety of unusual skin tones as well as with…

  • Hair Story by Ayana D. Byrd

    Book Description: Two world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. From the antebellum practice of shaving the head in an attempt to pass as a “free” person to the 1998 uproar over a White third-grade teacher’s reading…