Source: (www.today.wayne.edu) – Meaningful research has broad impact — and in some cases, a personal connection to a scholar. For Trejha Whitfield, a Ph.D. student and graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Communication, research has become an avenue of personal growth and an opportunity to help empower Black women. As a Black feminist scholar, Whitfield also thrives in educating others on the nuanced ways Black women develop and adapt their cultural identities through their hairstyles. Her most recent project is titled “My Kinky Hair is Beautiful: An Autoethnography of a Black Woman’s Identity Negotiation through Hair.”
