Don't Touch My Hair Ashis Nandy • Change a rote performance

• Change a rote performance into a rewarding one• Work in the mobility mode rather than the conformity mode• Overcome fear of failure

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Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment

But this legendary Overseas Chinese entrepreneur

then awakens to a new

Don't Touch My Hair Ashis Nandy • Change a rote performanceGroundbreaking . . . a scintillating, intellectual investigation into black women and the very serious business of our hair, as it pertains to race, gender, social codes, tradition, culture, cosmology, maths, politics, philosophy and history. From women's solidarity and friendship to forgotten African scholars and the dubious provenance of Kim Kardashian's braids, the scope of black hairstyling ranges from pop culture to cosmology, from prehistoric