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Word: haire (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stay away from my hair...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: It's Not Your Afro | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...first 12 years of my life, I rarely had to "deal" with my hair except getting it cut and occasionally combing it. I lived in the predominantly black and Latino Mt. Pleasant area of Washington, D.C., and attended basically a black elementary school. We did not see anything strange about our hair. But, in 1989, the year the Berlin wall came crashing down, so did my world of stress-free hair existence when I enrolled in the predominantly white Sidwell Friends School...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: It's Not Your Afro | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...that your real hair...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: It's Not Your Afro | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

Apparently, there had not been too many black men in Sidwell's history, and those who were there kept their heads almost shaven (I understand why now). I was a novelty: a black man with more than a centimeter of hair on his head...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: It's Not Your Afro | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...have an afro or a sport cornrows (they're kind of like braids for those who don't know). I cannot count the number of times people I do not know come up to me and touch my hair, saying something dumb like...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: It's Not Your Afro | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

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