ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book attempts to understand Black women's history with their hair and with themselves based upon the receptiveness and/or backlash from dominant society. It expresses what economic lengths Black women across the Diaspora go through by choice. The difficulty in accepting this cultural legacy arises in a racially-conscious society: Black women are still struggling with how to present their physical image and still be accepted in society. The book addresses how dominant society, specifically Whites with power, send messages to Black women as to what they must do to have acceptable hair. It addresses what messages are seen in movies, hair advertisements, enslavement narratives, and runaway enslavement notices regarding Black women's hair. The book discusses model Peggy Dillard Toone who took natural hair very seriously and operated her own hair salon, Turning Heads.
