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  2. African-American hair - Wikipedia

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    African-American hair comes in a range of textures, but the most common hair type is curly with lots of volume. [5] This curly quality is the product of the shape of the hair follicles. [5] More circular-shaped follicles cause hair to grow straighter, while more curly hair is caused by more elongated, oval-shaped hair follicles. [5]

  3. Black hair - Wikipedia

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    Generally, the East Asian, Central Asian and Native American population has straight hair with a very thick cuticle layer [5] and South Asians have thick, wavy or curly hair, [6] while the general hair type seen in black African hair is thick, curly and dense with more hair growing from the head. The curly quality comes from the shape of the ...

  4. Sarará - Wikipedia

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    In Brazil, a sarará (Portuguese pronunciation: [saɾɐˈɾa] or ) is a multiracial person, being a particular kind of mulato or juçara (a tri-racial pardo with Amerindian features), with perceivable Black African facial features, light complexion and fair but curly hair, called cabelo crespo, or fair but Afro-like frizzly hair, called carapinha, cabelo encarapinhado or cabelo pixaim (IPA ...

  5. Afro - Wikipedia

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    The afro is a hair style created by combing out natural growth of afro-textured hair, or specifically styled with chemical curling products by individuals with naturally curly or straight hair. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The hairstyle can be created by combing the hair away from the scalp, dispersing a distinctive curl pattern, and forming the hair into a ...

  6. Kinky hair - Wikipedia

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    Papuan women with kinky hair. Kinky hair is a uniquely human characteristic, as most mammals have straight hair, including the earliest hominids. [11] Robbins (2012) suggests that kinky hair may have initially evolved because of an adaptive need amongst humans' early hominid ancestors for protection against the intense UV radiation of the sun in Africa.

  7. Jahai people - Wikipedia

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    They have dark skin, often curly-hair and Asiatic facial characteristics, and are stockily built. [3] They are hunter-gatherers and they occasionally practice swidden agriculture. [4] The Jahai people believe in a religious system with Karei (pronounced "Karεy") as a supernatural force that oversees their actions and behaviours. In order to ...

  8. Discrimination based on hair texture - Wikipedia

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    Discrimination based on hair texture, also known as textureism, is a form of social injustice, where afro-textured hair or coarse hair types, and their associated hair styles, are viewed negatively, often perceived as "unprofessional", "unattractive", or "unclean".

  9. Chino (casta) - Wikipedia

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    However, the use of Chino has survived in modern Mexican Spanish via the term pelo chino (Chino hair) when referring to curly hair. Although chino can mean Chinese in standard Spanish, the chino in pelo chino does not refer to Chinese people. Rather it refers to the curly hair of the Chino casta. [7]