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cfr-25064	Lester, Neal	Fathers and Their African American Daughters: Hair Pieces Creating Ties that Bind	2011	7	.pdf	application/pdf	3286	219	77	Even the social and political CFR_2011_R.indb 27 10/31/11 8:57:37 AM FAthers And their AFriCAn AmeriCAn dAughters lester 28 implications of straight hair for Disney’s first African American princess Tiana, from The Princess and the Frog,1 reveals minimal efforts to challenge prevailing ideals about “good” and “bad” hair. With this question so steeped in cultural folklore and written so indelibly upon the fabric of America’s distinct history of black and white CFR_2011_R.indb 28 10/31/11 8:57:37 AM lester FAthers And their AFriCAn AmeriCAn dAughters 29 race relations, Rock set out to explore why this prevailing notion of “good hair” as straight hair, presumably like white people’s hair — even though all whites don’t necessarily have straight hair — still exists and has reached his and surely other young African American daughters.	cache/cfr-25064.pdf	txt/cfr-25064.txt