My Hair Goes Up Hair Poetics

My Hair Goes Up  uses essays and poetics to examine the California *CROWN Act (SB 188), a law written to create a respectful and open workplace and world for natural hair.  This book is a poetic tribute to the lofty, helical, gravity-defying hair that deserves to exist freely, and it shares a heartening perspective on the norms surrounding the legacy of contrived racial divisions. My Hair Goes Up poetically deconstructs problematic human divisions and finds solutions that will create a