Tanya Crumel Biography

9.7 Good Hair2009

Genres: Comedy, Documentary

Director: Jeff Stilson

Artists: Tanya Crumel, Kevin Kirk, Jason Griggers, Maya Angelou

Chris Rock, a man with two daughters, asks about good hair, as defined by Black Americans, mostly Black women. He visits Bronner Brothers' annual hair convention in Atlanta. He tells us about sodium hydroxide, a toxin used to relax hair. He looks at weaves, and he travels to India where tonsure ceremonies produce much of the hair sold in America. A weave is expensive: he asks who makes the money. We visit salons and barbershops, central to the Black community. Rock asks men if they can touch th ...