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Hairstyle is the first thing others see when you approach. The audience mainly notices it as a speaker moves steps to the speaking arena; because hair is on the head, it is highly noticeable and combines with other facial factors to send out powerful non-spoken messages to the audience.
Cutting off one’s hair will get noticed, but it is often done for a reason. It can symbolize a rite of passage or declaration of character growth.
Adele N. Norris wrote in Black Perspectives in October 2021: “Anti-black racism presents whiteness as the normal mode of humanness and argues that it is made visible through the stigmatizing of Black hair and styles.”
Dress codes that would not mention race would ban hairstyles mainly worn by black people in the workplace.
Hair was a sacred cultural and spiritual symbol in ancient African societies. Those communities fashioned their hair for more than just style and were intended to communicate a message. Throughout the continent, a person's hairstyle could tell a lot about who they were and where they came from.
Hair is communication. It complements the desired image and is also a mode of communication in that it sends out several messages to the audience.
