{"id":1291,"date":"2022-04-25T18:19:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T18:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2022-04-25T18:19:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T18:19:10","slug":"the-power-of-hair-as-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/2022\/04\/25\/the-power-of-hair-as-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of hair as protection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Ntozake Shange&#8217;s &#8220;oh she gotta head fulla hair&#8221;, Allegra&#8217;s hair is her protection. Allegra&#8217;s hair allows her to live in a world full of her dreams by growing objects from her hair. This allows Allegra to live in a world of her desires, which she brushes in order to uphold. Shange illustrates this connection between protection and hair through the use of colors, descriptions of Allegra&#8217;s continuous brushing, and listing items grown by Allegra&#8217;s hair. This text encourages readers to think about blackness through the lens of hair as protection. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Ntozake Shange&#8217;s &#8220;oh she gotta head fulla hair&#8221;, Allegra&#8217;s hair is her protection. Allegra&#8217;s hair allows her to live in a world full of her dreams by growing objects from her hair. This allows Allegra to live in a world of her desires, which she brushes in order to uphold. Shange illustrates this connection&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127024,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-group-c","category-thesis-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127024"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}