Cornrows

File:SMITH(1890) p211 JOHANNIS, KING OF ABYSSINIA.jpg wearing traditional Ethiopian braids.]]

Cornrows originated in Africa, where they likely developed in response to the unique textures of African hair,{{Cite journal |last=White |first=Shane |last2=White |first2=Graham |date=1995 |title=Slave Hair and African American Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2211360 |journal=The Journal of Southern History |volume=61 |issue=1 |pages=45–76 |doi=10.2307/2211360 |issn=0022-4642|url-access=subscription }} and have held significance for different cultures throughout recorded history.{{Cite web |date=2011-06-12 |title=History of Cornrow Braiding: African Orgins 1.d |url=http://www.ccd.rpi.edu/Eglash/csdt/african/CORNROW_CURVES/culture/african.origins.2.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612120134/http://www.ccd.rpi.edu/Eglash/csdt/african/CORNROW_CURVES/culture/african.origins.2.htm |archive-date=2011-06-12 |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=ccd.rpi.edu}}{{Cite web |title=The evolution of cornrows - Reader's Digest |url=https://www.readersdigest.co.uk/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/the-evolution-of-cornrows |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=www.readersdigest.co.uk |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Dreadlocks {{!}} Hairstyle, History, Cultural Appropriation, & Locs {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/dreadlocks |access-date=2024-10-28 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}} Early depictions of women with what appear to be cornrows have been found in Stone Age paintings in the Tassili Plateau of the Sahara, and have been dated as far back as 3000 B.C. A similar style is also seen in depictions of the ancient Cushitic people of the Horn of Africa, who appear to be wearing this style of braids as far back as 2000 B.C.{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of African history and culture: Ancient Africa (prehistory to 500 CE), Volume 1 |publisher=Facts on File |year=2001 |isbn=978-0816044726 |editor=Willie F. Page |page=36}} In Nubia, the remains of a young girl wearing cornrows has been dated to 550–750 A.D.DeLongoria, M. (2018). Misogynoir:* Black Hair, Identity Politics, and Multiple Black Realities. Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, 12(8), 39-49 (40). Cornrows have also been documented in the ancient Nok civilization in Nigeria, in the Mende culture of Sierra Leone,{{Cite web |date=2011-06-12 |title=History of Cornrow Braiding: African Origins1.c |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612120129/http://www.ccd.rpi.edu/Eglash/csdt/african/CORNROW_CURVES/culture/african.origins.1.b.htm |archive-url=http://www.ccd.rpi.edu/Eglash/csdt/african/CORNROW_CURVES/culture/african.origins.1.b.htm |archive-date=2011-06-12 |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=ccd.rpi.edu}} and the Dan culture of the Côte d'Ivoire.

Women in West Africa have been attested wearing complex hairstyles of threaded or wrapped braids since at least the 18th century. These practices likely influenced the use of cornrows and headwraps (such as durags) among enslaved Africans taken to the Americas. In Ethiopia and Eritrea, there are many braided hairstyles which may include cornrows or "shuruba", such as Habesha or Albaso braids, and Tigray shuriba.{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=Shine My Crown |date=2023-06-20 |title=Albaso Braids: Modern Ethiopian Braids & Hairstyles |url=https://shinemycrown.com/hairstyle/albaso-braids/ |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=Shine My Crown |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2022-10-04 |title=20 Ethiopian Hairstyle Ideas – Forever Braids |url=https://foreverbraids.com/ethiopian-hairstyles/ |access-date=2024-03-01 |language=en-CA}} Though such hairstyles have always been popular with women, Ethiopian men have also worn such hairstyles. In 19th century Ethiopia, male warriors and kings such as Tewodros II and Yohannes IV were depicted wearing braided hairstyles, including the shuruba.{{Cite web |title=African Ghana Wall Mask, Woman with Braided Hair, Hand Carved Ebony. |url=https://www.roadshowcollectibles.ca/products/african-ghana-decorative-wall-mask-woman-with-braided-hair-hand-carved-ebony |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=Roadshow Collectibles}}{{Cite web |last=Ali |first=Kiya |date=2019-04-16 |title=Returning to Roots: Braids Make a Comeback |url=https://ethiopianbusinessreview.net/returning-to-roots/ |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=Ethiopian Business Review |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Aning |first=Laurencia |title=A hair journey through time {{!}} Hair Journey with Laurencia |url=https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/laurenciaaning/ |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=blogs.brighton.ac.uk |via=University of Brighton}}

Cornrow hairstyles in Africa also cover a wide social terrain: religion, kinship, status, age, racial diversity, and other attributes of identity can all be expressed in hairstyle. Just as important is the act of braiding, which passes on cultural values between generations, expresses bonds between friends, and establishes the role of professional practitioner.{{cite web |title=History of Cornrow Braiding: African Origins 1.b |url=http://csdt.rpi.edu/african/cornrow_curves/culture/african.origins.1.a.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623170048/http://csdt.rpi.edu/african/cornrow_curves/culture/african.origins.1.a.htm |archive-date=2015-06-23 |access-date=2015-06-20 |publisher=Csdt.rpi.edu}} Braiding is traditionally a social ritual in many African cultures—as is hairstyling in general—and is often performed communally, as White and White explain:

{{Blockquote |text=In African cultures, the grooming and styling of hair have long been important social rituals. Elaborate hair designs, reflecting tribal affiliation, status, sex, age, occupation, and the like, were common, and the cutting, shaving, wrapping, and braiding of hair were centuries-old arts. In part, it was the texture of African hair that allowed these cultural practices to develop; as the historian John Thornton has observed, "the tightly spiraled hair of Africans makes it possible to design and shape it in many ways impossible for the straighter hair of Europeans." }}

File:Reconstruction of the Lady of Brassempouy by Libor Balák, Czech Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Archaeology in Brno, The Center for Paleolithic and Paleoethnological Research.jpgThere have been a number of examples of European art and sculpture described as similar to modern cornrows, such as plaits, the melon coiffure and sini crenes.

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The oldest of these depictions are the statues known as the Venus of Brassempouy{{Cite journal |author=Randall White |date=December 2006 |title=The Women of Brassempouy: A Century of Research and Interpretation |url=http://blogimages.bloggen.be/evodisku/attach/166144.pdf |journal=Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory |volume=13 |issue=4 |pages=251–304 |doi=10.1007/s10816-006-9023-z |s2cid=161276973}}.{{Cite web |date=2021-09-30 |title=Echoes of the Past: Prehistoric Wonders in Southern France |url=https://francetoday.com/culture/art_and_design/echoes-of-the-past-prehistoric-wonders-in-southern-france/ |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=France Today}} and the Venus of Willendorf,[http://witcombe.sbc.edu/willendorf/willendorfwoman.html "Woman from Willendorf"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071005031914/http://witcombe.sbc.edu/willendorf/willendorfwoman.html|date=2007-10-05}}. Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe, 2003: "The rows are not one continuous spiral but are, in fact, composed in seven concentric horizontal bands that encircle the head and two more horizontal bands underneath the first seven on the back of the head."{{Cite book |last=Shaw Nevins |first=Andrea |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/856869915 |title=The embodiment of disobedience : fat black women's unruly political bodies |date=2006 |isbn=978-0-7391-5457-1 |location=Lanham, MD |oclc=856869915}}{{Cite book |last=Shell |first=Ellen Ruppel |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53434322 |title=The hungry gene : the inside story of the obesity industry |date=2003 |publisher=Grove Press |isbn=0-8021-4033-5 |edition=1st Grove Press |location=New York |oclc=53434322}} which date between 23,000 and 29,000 years ago{{Cite web |title=The earliest artistic depiction of a hairstyle {{!}} New Scientist |url=https://www.newscientist.com/letter/mg23631540-900-15-the-earliest-artistic-depiction-of-a-hairstyle/ |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=www.newscientist.com |language=en-US}} and were found in modern day France and Austria. Whether these statues feature cornrows, another type of braids, headdresses, or some other styling has been a matter of vigorous debate — most historians rule out cornrows, however. The Venus of Brassempouy is often said to wear a wig or a patterned hood,{{cite book|last=Lawson|first=Andrew|title=Painted Caves: Palaeolithic Rock Art in Western Europe|date=24 May 2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-969822-6|page=47|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kU-10lGjDYoC&q=Venus+of+Brassempouy+hood&pg=PA47}} while the Venus of Willendorf is said to be wearing plaited hair or a fibrous cap.

Since the early 5th century B.C., Ancient Greek and Roman art shows men and women with a characteristic melon coiffure, especially in the "Oriental Aphrodite" tradition, which may be confused with cornrows.{{Cite web |title=Seated Nude Woman with "Melon Coiffure" |url=https://www.library.fordham.edu/digital/item/collection/Hist/id/655 |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=Fordham University Libraries}}{{Cite web |title=The Herculaneum Women |url=https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/herculaneum_women/index.html |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=The J. Paul Getty Museum}}{{Cite web |date=2015-12-16 |title=Hairstyles in the Arts of Greek and Roman Antiquity |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022202X15526158 |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=Journal of Investigative Dermatology Symposium Proceedings}} The traditional hairstyle of Roman Vestal Virgins, the sini crenes, also incorporates two braids that resemble cornrows.{{Cite book |last=León |first=Vicki |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/879285569 |title=Working IX to V : orgy planners, funeral clowns, and other prized professions of the ancient world |date=2013 |isbn=978-0-8027-1862-4 |location=New York |pages=18 |oclc=879285569}}{{cite web |title=Oldest Roman Hairstyle Recreated for First Time |url=https://www.livescience.com/26112-oldest-roman-hairstyle-recreated.html |website=LiveScience |date=9 January 2013 |accessdate=13 February 2019}}{{Cite web |title=Ancient Roman Vestal Virgin hairstyle re-created for very first time |url=https://gizmodo.com/ancient-roman-vestal-virgin-hairstyle-re-created-for-ve-5975123 |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=Gizmodo |date=11 January 2013 |language=en-us}}

The first recorded use of the word "cornrow" was in America in 1769, referring to the corn fields of the Americas. The earliest recorded use of the term "cornrows" to refer a hairstyle was in 1902.{{efn|"Alice hunted up faithful old nurse Calline at once, sure of overflowing black motherly sympathy. She found her perched on the railing of the back gallery, combing her hair in long 'corn-rows'."

Century Magazine, October 1902, 966/1.}} The name "canerows" may be more common in parts of the Caribbean due to the historic role of sugar plantations in the region.

As in Africa, grooming was a social activity for Black people on the American plantations; the enslaved Africans were reported helping each other style their hair into a wide variety of appearances. On his visit to a plantation in Natchez, Mississippi, New Englander Joseph lngraham wrote, "No scene can be livelier or more interesting to a Northerner, than that which the negro quarters of a well regulated plantation present, on a Sabbath morning, just before church hour."{{Cite book |last=White |first=Shane |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7591/9781501718083/html |title=Stylin': African-American Expressive Culture, from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit |last2=White |first2=Graham |date=1999 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-1-5017-1808-3 |place=Ithaca, NY |pages=37–39 |language=en |doi=10.7591/9781501718083 |access-date=2024-10-28}} Hairstyles were so characteristic of a person, even when their appearance and behaviour was otherwise heavily regulated, that they were often used to identify runaways, and enslaved Africans sometimes had their hair shaved as a form of punishment. Generally, however, slaveholders in the British colonies gave their Black slaves a degree of latitude in how they wore their hair.{{Cite book |last=White |first=Shane |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7591/9781501718083/html |title=Stylin': African-American Expressive Culture, from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit |last2=White |first2=Graham |date=1999 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-1-5017-1808-3 |place=Ithaca, NY |pages=40–1 |language=en |doi=10.7591/9781501718083 |access-date=2024-10-28}} Thus, wearing traditional hairstyles offered a way to assert their bodily autonomy when they otherwise had none.{{Cite web |last=Walker |first=Susannah |date=1999 |title=Stylin': African American Expressive Culture from its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit. By Shane White and Graham White (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998. xv plus 301pp.) (Review) |url=https://academic.oup.com/jsh/article-lookup/doi/10.1353/jsh.1999.0077 |access-date=2024-10-28 |website=Journal of Social History, Volume 33, Issue 2, Winter 1999 |pages=483–5 (483) |doi=10.1353/jsh.1999.0077}}

Enslaved Black people may have chosen to wear cornrows to keep their hair neat and flat to their scalp while working; the other styles they developed alongside cornrows blended African, European and Native American trends and traditions.{{Cite web |date= |title=History of Cornrow Braiding: Middle Passage 2.b |url=http://www.ccd.rpi.edu/Eglash/csdt/african/CORNROW_CURVES/culture/middle.passage.1.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612120144/http://www.ccd.rpi.edu/Eglash/csdt/african/CORNROW_CURVES/culture/middle.passage.1.htm |archive-date=2011-06-12 |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=ccd.rpi.eduvvv}} African-American, Afro-Latino and Caribbean folklore also relates multiple stories of cornrows being used to communicate or provide maps for slaves across the "New World".{{Cite journal |last=Anangonó |first=Pablo Tatés |last2=Moreno-Montoro |first2=María-Isabel |date=2024-09-30 |title=Pelo negro y dramaturgia: sentir, pensar y politizar el pelo negro mediante dos piezas cortas de teatro |url=https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/RTC/article/view/9203 |journal=Tercio Creciente |language=es |pages=111–138 (115) |doi=10.17561/rtc..9203 |issn=2340-9096|doi-access=free }} Today, such styles retain their link with Black self-expression and creativity, and may also serve as a form of political expression.{{Cite journal |last=Jaima |first=Felicitas R. |date=2017-09-02 |title=When things get hairy: afros, cornrows, and the desegregation of US military hair salons in West Germany |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17528631.2017.1363477 |journal=African and Black Diaspora|language=en |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=269–280 |doi=10.1080/17528631.2017.1363477 |issn=1752-8631|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Chapman |first=Yolanda |date=2007-11-28 |title="I am Not my Hair! Or am I?": Black Women's Transformative Experience in their Self Perceptions of Abroad and at Home |url=https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/anthro_theses/23 |journal=Anthropology Theses |doi=10.57709/1059174}}

Cornrows gained in popularity in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, and again during the 1990s and 2000s. In the 2000s, some athletes wore cornrows, including NBA basketball players Allen Iverson, Rasheed Wallace, and Latrell Sprewell.{{cite book |author=Sherrow, Victoria |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofha0000sher |title=Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=2006 |isbn=9780313331459 |page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofha0000sher/page/97 97] |url-access=registration}} Some female mixed martial artists have chosen to wear cornrows for their fights as it prevents their hair from obscuring their vision as they move.{{Cite web |date=2021-06-23 |title=For Professional Fighters, Hairstyles Can Make the Difference Between Winning and Losing |url=https://www.allure.com/story/professional-fighter-hairstyles-braids |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=Allure |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2020-11-20 |title=Michaela Angela Davis on the Power of Protective Hairstyles |url=https://www.allure.com/story/protective-styles-meaning-history-michaela-angela-davis |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=Allure |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Dsalita |date=2023-11-08 |title=why do female mma fighters have cornrows |url=https://www.dsalita.com/mma/why-do-female-mma-fighters-have-cornrows/ |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=Dsalita Boxing |language=en-US}}

File:Nuba woman Kau.jpg woman wearing cornrows in a traditional styling]]

Colonial attitudes and practices towards Black hairstyles have traditionally been used to reinforce racism, exclusion and inequality.{{Cite journal |last=Anangonó |first=Pablo Tatés |last2=Moreno-Montoro |first2=María-Isabel |date=2024-09-30 |title=Pelo negro y dramaturgia: sentir, pensar y politizar el pelo negro mediante dos piezas cortas de teatro |url=https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/RTC/article/view/9203 |journal=Tercio Creciente |language=es |pages=111–138 (111) |doi=10.17561/rtc..9203 |issn=2340-9096|doi-access=free }} For example, during the 18th century, slaves would sometimes have their hair shaved as a lesser form of punishment. Eurocentric beauty standards, which often denigrate Black hairstyles, can lead to internalized racism, colorism, and marginalization, which negatively affect Black people—and Black women in particular.{{Cite journal |last=Robinson |first=Cynthia L. |date=2011 |title=Hair as Race: Why “Good Hair” May Be Bad for Black Females |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10646175.2011.617212 |journal=Howard Journal of Communications |language=en |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=358–376 (359–360) |doi=10.1080/10646175.2011.617212 |issn=1064-6175|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite web |date=2021-11-30 |title=Black Women’s Hair and Natural Hairstyles in the Workplace: Expanding the Definition of Race Under Title VII - Virginia Law Review |url=https://virginialawreview.org/articles/black-womens-hair/ |access-date=2024-10-28 |website=virginialawreview.org |language=en-US}} Related valuations of hair texture—which portray straighter hair as "good hair" and curlier hair as "bad hair"—are emphasized through the media, advertising, and popular culture.{{Cite web |date=2016-03-25 |title=La locura por las pelucas en África |url=https://www.elmundo.es/sociedad/2016/03/25/56f532c1ca47411e138b45a3.html |access-date=2024-10-28 |website=ELMUNDO |language=es}} These attitudes to hair can devalue African heritage and lead to discrimination.{{Cite journal |last=Henson |first=Renee |date=2017-11-01 |title=Are my Cornrows Unprofessional?: Title VII's Narrow Application of Grooming Policies, and its Effect on Black Women's Natural Hair in the Workplace |url=https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/betr/vol1/iss2/9/ |journal=The Business, Entrepreneurship & Tax Law Review |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=521}} The unique type of discrimination that arises from prejudice towards Black women's hair is called natural hair discrimination.{{Cite web |date=2024-07-10 |title=Natural Hair Discrimination: Frequently Asked Questions |url=https://www.naacpldf.org/natural-hair-discrimination/ |access-date=2024-10-28 |website=Legal Defense Fund}}{{Cite journal |last=Nkimbeng |first=Manka |last2=Malaika Rumala |first2=Bernice B. |last3=Richardson |first3=Crystal M. |last4=Stewart-Isaacs |first4=Shemekka Ebony |last5=Taylor |first5=Janiece L. |date=2023-08-01 |title=The Person Beneath the Hair: Hair Discrimination, Health, and Well-Being |url=https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/heq.2022.0118 |journal=Health Equity |language=en |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=406–410 |doi=10.1089/heq.2022.0118 |issn=2473-1242 |pmc=10457631 |pmid=37638116}}{{Cite web |last=Arefin |first=D Sharmin |date=2020-04-17 |title=Is Hair Discrimination Race Discrimination? |url=https://www.americanbar.org/groups/business_law/resources/business-law-today/2020-may/is-hair-discrimination-race-discrimination/ |access-date=2024-10-28 |website=American Bar Association}} Despite these challenges, cornrows have gained popularity among Black people as a way to express their Blackness, creativity and individuality.

Over the decades, cornrows, alongside dreadlocks, have been the subject of several disputes in U.S. workplaces, as well as universities and schools. Some employers and educational institutions{{cite web|last1=Harris|first1=Sherry|title=Cornrows: History, Controversy & Freedom of Expression|url=http://sherryslife.com/cornrows/|publisher=Sherry's Life|access-date=28 August 2016|archive-date=14 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814144131/http://sherryslife.com/cornrows/|url-status=dead}} have considered cornrows unsuitable or "unprofessional", and have banned them. Employees and civil rights groups have countered that such attitudes evidence cultural bias or racism, and some disputes have resulted in litigation.{{cite book |author=Alison Dundes Renteln |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zyWr3dSXUrIC&q=cornrows+in+litigation&pg=PA143 |title=The Cultural Defense |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2005 |isbn=9780195154030 |page=143 |access-date=10 August 2011}} In 1981, Renee Rogers sued American Airlines for their policy which banned cornrows and other braided hairstyles. Other cases, such as Mitchell vs Marriott Hotel and Pitts vs. Wild Adventures, soon followed.DeLongoria, M. (2018). Misogynoir:* Black Hair, Identity Politics, and Multiple Black Realities. Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, 12(8), 39-49 (45). Since other traditional Black hairstyles are also often banned, Black women may be forced to straighten their hair or emulate European hairstyles at significant additional cost. The intersection of racialized and gendered discrimination against Black women is often called misogynoir.{{Cite web |last=Mjr&l |date=2021-03-09 |title=“Professional” Hairstyles: How Title VII Protections Have Condoned the Policing of Black Women’s Hair |url=https://mjrl.org/2021/03/09/professional-hairstyles-how-title-vii-protections-have-condoned-the-policing-of-black-womens-hair/ |access-date=2024-10-28 |website=Michigan Journal of Race & Law |language=en}} In California, the CROWN Act was passed in 2019 to prohibit discrimination based on hair style and hair texture.{{Cite web |date=July 4, 2019 |title=California becomes first state to ban discrimination against natural hair |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/crown-act-california-becomes-first-state-to-ban-discrimination-against-natural-hair/ |access-date=2021-05-13 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en}}

In 2011, the High Court of the United Kingdom, in a decision reported as a test case, ruled against a school's decision to refuse entry to a student with cornrows. The school claimed this was part of its policy mandating "short back and sides" haircuts, and banning styles that might be worn as indicators of gang membership. However, the court ruled that the student was expressing a tradition and that such policies, while possibly justifiable in certain cases (e.g. skinhead gangs), had to accommodate reasonable racial diversities and cultural practices.{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/school-braids-ban-not-justified-2298925.htm | work=The Independent | title=School braids ban 'not justified' | date=2011-06-17 | access-date=2011-06-17}}

In some African nations, regularly changing hairstyles can be seen as a sign of social status for a woman, while advertising continues to promote straighter hairstyles as fashionable. Braids provide a way for women to maintain their hair, and are sometimes used with Chinese or Indian wigs to rotate hairstyles.

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