{"id":829,"date":"2024-02-28T12:34:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T17:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/africana\/?p=829"},"modified":"2026-02-11T11:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:04:18","slug":"africana-news-and-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/africana\/2024\/02\/28\/africana-news-and-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Africana Students Visit Local Barbers and Hair Stylists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Introduction to Africana Students Visit Local Barbers and Hair Stylists<br><\/strong>Last fall, students in Introduction to Africana visited barbers and hair stylists from the Lewiston-Auburn area to explore the relationship between community and cultural identity. Organized around the theme of &#8220;Seeing and Being Seen,&#8221; the course highlighted the experiences of people of African descent living in the Americas. Drawing upon their visits, students collaborated with Professors Charles Nero and Joshua Rubin to produce a paper.  The students&#8217; experiences were recently highlighted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2024\/02\/02\/slideshow-this-month-at-bates-56\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2024\/02\/02\/slideshow-this-month-at-bates-56\/\">profile from Bates News<\/a>, and the paper can be accessed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2024\/01\/AFR100-Black-Artistry-Beauty-Self-Expression-and-Community.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2024\/01\/AFR100-Black-Artistry-Beauty-Self-Expression-and-Community.pdf\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/africana\/files\/2024\/03\/Students-with-Hair-Stylist.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/africana\/files\/2024\/03\/Students-with-Hair-Stylist-900x600.webp\" alt=\"Photo Credit: Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College\" class=\"wp-image-849\" style=\"width:455px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/africana\/files\/2024\/03\/Students-with-Hair-Stylist-900x600.webp 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/africana\/files\/2024\/03\/Students-with-Hair-Stylist-400x267.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/africana\/files\/2024\/03\/Students-with-Hair-Stylist-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/africana\/files\/2024\/03\/Students-with-Hair-Stylist-942x628.jpg 942w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/africana\/files\/2024\/03\/Students-with-Hair-Stylist-200x133.webp 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/africana\/files\/2024\/03\/Students-with-Hair-Stylist.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo Credit: Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction to Africana Students Visit Local Barbers and Hair StylistsLast fall, students&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1572,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}