# Identity and Stereotypes in American History: What Hair Was Supposed to Reveal

- **When:** Thu, Nov 19, 2026, 7:00 PM PST – 9:00 PM PST
- **Where:** Alta Vina, 420 3rd St, Oakland, CA 94607, USA
- **Price:** $27
- **Organizer:** [Big Brain Bay Area](https://eventing.ing/organizers/orgz_1m1gpjyp99ar45aatxhwwf)
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🧔 Hair is never just hair. So what was it trying to tell us in the nineteenth century?

In colonial British North America, hair was often seen as bodily discharge, even excrement. By the nineteenth century, it had become something far more powerful: a supposed window into who a person really was, whether a man or a woman, Black, white, Indigenous, or Asian, healthy or diseased, courageous or criminally inclined.

Dr. Sarah Gold McBride, historian and Continuing Lecturer in…

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