Where did the term kitchen come from...
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sweetcocoa
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People use the term kitchen to describe the hair closest to the the nape of the neck. Anyone know why?
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I copied this from a site on the internet... I don't know how accurate it is.
Kitchen (I) -- a term used to describe the part of hair at the nape of blacks' necks that was entirely resistant to hair-straightening methods. In Henry Louis Gates' COLORED PEOPLE, in which he describes a childhood during the fifties and 60's, a community and culture exist apart from the white mainstream, separated by segregation. Despite a flourishing of "colored" culture, the aesthetic values of white America encroached. "Good hair" in the 50's + 60's meant "white hair," and blacks underwent arduous processes to achieve nearly-white straight hair. It wasn't until the Black Power phase of the Civil Rights Movement that "black" was viewed as beautiful. New pride in black culture and features emerged, with many putting aside their straight hair for natural kink and "Afros." The kitchen no longer had to "compete" with the rest of the hair, although the older generation had a harder time accepting the new standards of black beauty.
People use the term kitchen to describe the hair closest to the the nape of the neck. Anyone know why?
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I copied this from a site on the internet... I don't know how accurate it is.
Kitchen (I) -- a term used to describe the part of hair at the nape of blacks' necks that was entirely resistant to hair-straightening methods. In Henry Louis Gates' COLORED PEOPLE, in which he describes a childhood during the fifties and 60's, a community and culture exist apart from the white mainstream, separated by segregation. Despite a flourishing of "colored" culture, the aesthetic values of white America encroached. "Good hair" in the 50's + 60's meant "white hair," and blacks underwent arduous processes to achieve nearly-white straight hair. It wasn't until the Black Power phase of the Civil Rights Movement that "black" was viewed as beautiful. New pride in black culture and features emerged, with many putting aside their straight hair for natural kink and "Afros." The kitchen no longer had to "compete" with the rest of the hair, although the older generation had a harder time accepting the new standards of black beauty.
lunalight7
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The 'kitchen' is where 'peas' cook !!!!!
dontspeakdefeat
Hair Coach
Good to know this.
