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Sarah Gold McBride

Sarah Gold McBride
Sarah Gold McBride is on the faculty in the Program in American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America.


Bad Curls, Bad Character:
The Charged Meaning of Hair in 19th-Century America

Sarah Gold McBride on Race in the United States, Tresses as Culture, and the Field of “Whiskerology”
June 9, 2025  By Sarah Gold McBride
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