When curls reaffirm Afro Cubanidad

When curls reaffirm Afro Cubanidad

The African diaspora’s contribution to the cultural identity of the Americas and the Caribbean is evident in its aesthetics. Afrodescendant women maintained a certain standard of beauty and used various techniques to create countless hairstyles. Those styles were not widely appreciated, though, and that led some Black women to straighten their hair. This choice might have stemmed from a desire for aesthetic assimilation to the straight hair asso…