WRT 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter essays: Nat King Cole, Good Hair, Shampoo

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Writing
• Course: WRT 102
• Professor: Andrew Rimby

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Important quotes: in the kitchen, black men and public space, we do abortions here: a. The hot comb" was a fine-toothed iron instrument with a long wooden handle and a pair of iron curlers that opened and closed like scissors. Mama would put it in the gas fire until it glowed. It"s important to grease your scalp real good, my mama would explain, to keep from burning yourself. Of course, her hair would return to its natural kink almost as soon as the hot water and shampoo hit it . The kitchen" she would all but remove from sight with a handheld pair of shears, bought just for this purpose. My mother examines my daughters" kitchens whenever we went home to visit i told her not to do it, because i didn"t like the politics it suggested-the notion of good" and.