{"id":59654,"date":"2020-04-10T20:13:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T20:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59654"},"modified":"2020-04-10T20:23:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T20:23:46","slug":"that-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59654","title":{"rendered":"That Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tinhouse.com\/book\/that-hair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>That Hair<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tinhouse.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tin House<\/a><br \/>2020-03-17<br \/>163 pages<br \/>Paperback ISBN: 978-1-947793-41-5<br \/>eBook ISBN: 978-1-947793-50-7<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.djaimilia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida<\/strong><\/a><br \/>Translated by <a href=\"https:\/\/ericmbbecker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Eric M. B. Becker<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tinhouse.com\/book\/that-hair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tinhouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/9781947793415-scaled.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe story of my curly hair,\u201d says Mila, the narrator of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida\u2019s autobiographically inspired <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tragicomedy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tragicomedy<\/a>, \u201cintersects with the story of at least two countries and, by extension, the indirect story of the relations among several continents: a geopolitics.\u201d Mila is the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luanda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luanda<\/a>-born daughter of a black Angolan mother and a white Portuguese father. She arrives in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lisbon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lisbon<\/a> at the tender age of three, and feels like an outsider from the jump. Through the lens of young Mila\u2019s indomitably curly hair, her story interweaves memories of childhood and adolescence, family lore spanning four generations, and present-day reflections on the internal and external tensions of a European and African identity. In layered, intricately constructed prose, <em>That Hair<\/em> enriches and deepens a global conversation, challenging in necessary ways our understanding of racism, feminism, and the double inheritance of colonialism, not yet fifty years removed from Angola\u2019s independence. It\u2019s the story of coming of age as a black woman in a nation at the edge of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Europe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Europe<\/a> that is also rapidly changing, of being considered an outsider in one\u2019s own country, and the impossibility of \u201creturning\u201d to a homeland one doesn\u2019t in fact know.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong><br>That Hair<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe story of my curly hair,\u201d says Mila, the narrator of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida\u2019s autobiographically inspired tragicomedy, \u201cintersects with the story of at least two countries and, by extension, the indirect story of the relations among several continents: a geopolitics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,395,11,28,15],"tags":[7819,30850,30852,6011,30851],"class_list":["post-59654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-autobiography","category-books","category-europe","category-novels","tag-angola","tag-djaimilia-pereira-de-almeida","tag-eric-m-b-becker","tag-portugal","tag-tin-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59654"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59659,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59654\/revisions\/59659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}