Contemporary American Braids: The Question of Aesthetics and Performance, audio cassette, OTC 408.16.1
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Maltsby, Portia
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture
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content: 1982-10-16
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content: Box 128, Cassette 23
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Introductory remarks by Bernice Johnson Reagon	

Remarks by Amina Dickerson

Panel one: Black American Hair Design: Historical Perspectives

Introduction by Bernice Johnson Reagon.  

Panelists:

Rosalyn Walker (curator, Museum of African Art): African heritage of hair braiding. History of hair braiding designs in Africa.  Cultural, religioius, social, and economic representations of hair braiding.

Bernice Johnson Reagon (director, Program in African American Culture): The Middle Passage - Black American hair care from the time of slavery to the invention of relaxers and perms.