Afro

As an African- Look ( also Afro, Afro short ) refers to a hairstyle with strong gekrausten, protruding on all sides tight curls.

History

Long, unfrisiertes, wild and curly hair was in the 1960s reflected the hippie movement. The trend towards everything natural brought the wide popularity of the Afro - looks. Due to the success of the musical Hair, the popularity of Jimi Hendrix and the influence of the " Black Power " movement and the U.S. civil rights movement among African Americans ( " Civil Rights Movement " ) is African- Look also enjoyed some among whites outside the U.S. corresponding popularity.

A special role is played by the Afro -Look in the American civil rights movement, as with the slogan " Black is beautiful " undermine the specifically tailored to White beauty ideal and so " queer hair" or " nappy hair" for the first time in the U.S. broad-based visible was worn with pride. The perm for the man was then socially acceptable.

Hairstyle

In Germany a kind of Afro -Look in the 1970s by the football player Paul Breitner and Bobby Farrell ( the eccentric dancer of the disco group Boney M) was generally exemplified. People with straight hair model their hair in Afro - look with curlers (with or without hairpins ) or rotate the individual strands on before wrapping his fingers into plaits. Here, the hair is blow-dried and then fixed with hairspray or gelled to strengthen the " African- frills ".

Adaptations

The starting in 1987 "Black German initiative " of the published magazine " Uncle Tom's Faust" was renamed after protests about the name from the second edition in " Afro look".

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