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89 relations: Africa, African Americans, African diaspora in the Americas, Afro-textured hair, American Civil War, Angela Davis, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Backcombing, Basketball, Beja people, Ben Wallace, Beyoncé, Black is beautiful, Black Panther Party, Black Power, Black pride, Braid, British Empire, Brooklyn, Butter, Caucasian race, Central Africa, Chicago Tribune, Cindy Blackman Santana, Circassian beauties, Circassians, Civil rights movement, Colonial troops, Comb, Conk, Cornrows, Dome, Dreadlocks, Ebony (magazine), Erykah Badu, European Americans, First World, Flower child, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, Hadendoa, Hair, Hair loss, Hair straightening, Hairstyle, Harvard University, Hippie, Horn of Africa, Hot comb, Israel, Jews, ..., Jheri curl, Jimi Hendrix, Judith Rossner, Kobe Bryant, Lamb and mutton, Lauryn Hill, Lenny Kravitz, Los Angeles Times, Ludacris, Lye, Macy Gray, Madam C. J. Walker, Mahdist War, Michael Beasley, Miriam Makeba, Natural hair movement, Neocolonialism, North Caucasus, Nubian wig, P. T. Barnum, Pam Grier, Political radicalism, Portmanteau, Questlove, Rastafari, Relaxer, Scalp, Sideshow, Slavery in the United States, Tanzania, The Guardian, The Jackson 5, The New York Times, The Supremes, West Africa, Western world, White people, Wig, Wiz Khalifa. Expand index (39 more) »
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).
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African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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African diaspora in the Americas
The African diaspora in the Americas is used to refer to people born in the Americas with predominantly African ancestry.
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Afro-textured hair
Afro-textured hair is the natural hair texture of certain populations in Africa, the African diaspora, Oceania and Asia.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, academic, and author.
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Austin Powers in Goldmember
Austin Powers in Goldmember is a 2002 American spy action comedy film.
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Backcombing
Backcombing (also known as teasing or ratting) is a way of combing hair which is used to create volume as well as to create certain hairstyles.
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Basketball
Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.
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Beja people
The Beja people (Beja: Oobja; البجا) are an ethnic group inhabiting Sudan, as well as parts of Eritrea and Egypt.
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Ben Wallace
Ben Camey Wallace (born September 10, 1974) is an American retired professional basketball player.
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Beyoncé
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and businesswoman.
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Black is beautiful
Black is beautiful is a cultural movement that was started in the US in the 1960s by African Americans.
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Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party or the BPP (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in October 1966.
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Black Power
Black Power is a political slogan and a name for various associated ideologies aimed at achieving self-determination for people of African descent.
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Black pride
Black pride is a movement in response to dominant white cultures and ideologies that encourages black people to celebrate black culture and embrace their African heritage.
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Braid
A braid (also referred to as a plait) is a complex structure or pattern formed by interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as textile yarns, wire, or hair.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.
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Butter
Butter is a dairy product containing up to 80% butterfat (in commercial products) which is solid when chilled and at room temperature in some regions and liquid when warmed.
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Caucasian race
The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid or Europid) is a grouping of human beings historically regarded as a biological taxon, which, depending on which of the historical race classifications used, have usually included some or all of the ancient and modern populations of Europe, the Caucasus, Asia Minor, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western Asia, Central Asia and South Asia.
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Central Africa
Central Africa is the core region of the African continent which includes Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda.
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Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.
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Cindy Blackman Santana
Cindy Blackman Santana (born November 18, 1959), sometimes known as Cindy Blackman, is an American jazz and rock drummer.
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Circassian beauties
Circassian beauties is a phrase used to refer to an idealized image of the women of the Circassian people of the Northwestern Caucasus.
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Circassians
The Circassians (Черкесы Čerkesy), also known by their endonym Adyghe (Circassian: Адыгэхэр Adygekher, Ады́ги Adýgi), are a Northwest Caucasian nation native to Circassia, many of whom were displaced in the course of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in the 19th century, especially after the Russian–Circassian War in 1864.
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Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.
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Colonial troops
Colonial troops or colonial army refers to various military units recruited from, or used as garrison troops in, colonial territories.
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Comb
A comb is a toothed device used for styling, cleaning and managing hair and scalp.
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Conk
Conks were often styled as large pompadours although other men chose to simply slick their straightened hair back, allowing it to lie flat on their heads.
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Cornrows
Cornrows or braids, also called canerows in the Caribbean, are an ancient traditional African style of hair grooming, in which the hair is braided very close to the scalp, using an underhand, upward motion to produce a continuous, raised row.
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Dome
Interior view upward to the Byzantine domes and semi-domes of Hagia Sophia. See Commons file for annotations. A dome (from Latin: domus) is an architectural element that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere.
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Dreadlocks
Dreadlocks, also locs, dreads, or in Sanskrit, Jaṭā, are ropelike strands of hair formed by matting or braiding hair.
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Ebony (magazine)
Ebony is a monthly magazine for the African-American market.
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Erykah Badu
Erica Abi Wright (born February 26, 1971), known professionally as Erykah Badu, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, disc jockey, activist, and actress.
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European Americans
European Americans (also referred to as Euro-Americans) are Americans of European ancestry.
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First World
The concept of First World originated during the Cold War and included countries that were generally aligned with NATO and opposed to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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Flower child
Flower child originated as a synonym for hippie, especially among the idealistic young people who gathered in San Francisco and the surrounding area during the Summer of Love in 1967.
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Fuzzy-Wuzzy
"Fuzzy-Wuzzy" is a poem by the English author and poet Rudyard Kipling, published in 1892 as part of Barrack Room Ballads.
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Hadendoa
Hadendoa (or Hadendowa) is the name of a nomadic subdivision of the Beja people, known for their support of the Mahdiyyah rebellion during the 1880s to 1890s.
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Hair
Hair is a protein filament that grows from follicles found in the dermis.
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Hair loss
Hair loss, also known as alopecia or baldness, refers to a loss of hair from part of the head or body.
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Hair straightening
Hair straightening is a hair styling technique used since the 1890s involving the flattening and straightening of hair in order to give it a smooth, streamlined, and sleek appearance.
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Hairstyle
A hairstyle, hairdo, or haircut refers to the styling of hair, usually on the human scalp.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Hippie
A hippie (sometimes spelled hippy) is a member of a counterculture, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world.
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Horn of Africa
The Horn of Africa is a peninsula in East Africa that juts into the Guardafui Channel, lying along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden and the southwest Red Sea.
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Hot comb
A hot comb (also known as a straightening comb) is a metal comb that is used to straighten moderate or coarse hair and create a smoother hair texture.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.
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Jews
Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.
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Jheri curl
The Jheri curl (often spelled Jerry curl or Jeri Curl) is a permed hairstyle that was popular among African Americans during the 1980s.
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Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
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Judith Rossner
Judith Rossner (March 31, 1935 – August 9, 2005) was an American novelist, best known for her acclaimed best sellers Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1975) and August (1983).
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Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bean Bryant (born August 23, 1978) is an American former professional basketball player.
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Lamb and mutton
Lamb, hogget, and mutton are the meat of domestic sheep (species Ovis aries) at different ages.
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Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Noelle Hill (born May 26, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actress.
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Lenny Kravitz
Leonard Albert Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American singer, songwriter, actor and record producer.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.
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Ludacris
Christopher Brian Bridges (born September 11, 1977), known professionally as Ludacris, is an American rapper and actor.
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Lye
A lye is a metal hydroxide traditionally obtained by leaching ashes (containing largely potassium carbonate or "potash"), or a strong alkali which is highly soluble in water producing caustic basic solutions.
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Macy Gray
Macy Gray (born Natalie Renée McIntyre; September 6, 1967) is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actress.
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Madam C. J. Walker
Sarah Breedlove (December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919), known as Madam C. J. Walker, was an African-American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and a political and social activist.
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Mahdist War
The Mahdist War (الثورة المهدية ath-Thawra al-Mahdī; 1881–99) was a British colonial war of the late 19th century which was fought between the Mahdist Sudanese of the religious leader Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah, who had proclaimed himself the "Mahdi" of Islam (the "Guided One"), and the forces of the Khedivate of Egypt, initially, and later the forces of Britain.
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Michael Beasley
Michael Paul Beasley Jr. (born January 9, 1989) is an American professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Miriam Makeba
Zenzile Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, actress, United Nations goodwill ambassador, and civil-rights activist.
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Natural hair movement
The natural hair movement is a movement which encourages women of African descent to keep their natural afro-textured hair.
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Neocolonialism
Neocolonialism, neo-colonialism or neo-imperialism is the practice of using capitalism, globalization and cultural imperialism to influence a developing country in lieu of direct military control (imperialism) or indirect political control (hegemony).
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North Caucasus
The North Caucasus (p) or Ciscaucasia is the northern part of the Caucasus region between the Sea of Azov and Black Sea on the west and the Caspian Sea on the east, within European Russia.
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Nubian wig
A Nubian wig is a form of headdress worn by ancient Egyptians which is thought to imitate the thick hairstyles of the Nubian peoples (of modern Sudan), who were at various times incorporated into the Egyptian kingdom.
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P. T. Barnum
Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, politician and businessman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus (1871–2017).
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Pam Grier
Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress.
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Political radicalism
The term political radicalism (in political science known as radicalism) denotes political principles focused on altering social structures through revolutionary or other means and changing value systems in fundamental ways.
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Portmanteau
A portmanteau or portmanteau word is a linguistic blend of words,, p. 644 in which parts of multiple words or their phones (sounds) are combined into a new word, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel.
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Questlove
Ahmir Khalib Thompson (born January 20, 1971), known professionally as Questlove (stylized as ?uestlove), is an American percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, music journalist, record producer, and occasional actor.
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Rastafari
Rastafari, sometimes termed Rastafarianism, is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s.
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Relaxer
A relaxer is a type of lotion or cream generally used by people with tight curls or very curly hair which makes hair easier to straighten by chemically "relaxing" the natural curls.
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Scalp
The scalp is the anatomical area bordered by the face at the front, and by the neck at the sides and back.
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Sideshow
In America, a sideshow is an extra, secondary production associated with a circus, carnival, fair, or other such attraction.
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Slavery in the United States
Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement, primarily of Africans and African Americans, that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Tanzania
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a sovereign state in eastern Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Jackson 5
The Jackson 5, or Jackson Five, currently known as the Jacksons, are an American family music group.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Supremes
The Supremes were an American female singing group and the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.
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West Africa
West Africa, also called Western Africa and the West of Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.
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Western world
The Western world refers to various nations depending on the context, most often including at least part of Europe and the Americas.
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White people
White people is a racial classification specifier, used mostly for people of European descent; depending on context, nationality, and point of view, the term has at times been expanded to encompass certain persons of North African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian descent, persons who are often considered non-white in other contexts.
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Wig
A wig is a head covering made from human hair, animal hair, or synthetic fiber.
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Wiz Khalifa
Cameron Jibril Thomaz (born September 8, 1987), known professionally as Wiz Khalifa, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter and actor.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro
