Wed, Jun 19
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Lyzette Wanzer, Trauma, Tresses & Truth Untangling Our Hair Through Personal Narratives
In honor of Juneteenth, CW is thrilled to be collaborating with the Santa Fe Art Institute, where Lyzette Wanzer is currently in residence. Lyzette will be in conversation with fellow SFAI resident, Emalohi Iruobe
Date, Time & Location
Jun 19, 2024, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store event and live streamed to Zoom, register for Zoom here.
Order Trauma, Tresses & Truth (paperback, $19.99) from CW online here or call the store (505) 988-4226 to order. Signed copies will be available after the event.
A Library Journal Best Social Science title of 2022
Black women continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair.
From grammar and high schools to corporate boardrooms and military squadrons, Black and Afro Latina natural hair continues to confound, transfix, and enrage members of White American society. Why, in 2022, is this still the case? Why have we not moved beyond that perennial racist emblem? And why are women so disproportionately affected? Why does our hair become most palatable when it capitulates, and has been subjugated, to resemble Caucasian features as closely as possible? Who or what is responsible for the web of supervision…