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Nappy can be either a term of endearment or a fighting word.

Here's how the word's racist roots got tangled up in our hair history.

I'm Len with Push Black, and this is 2-Minute Black History.

What You Didn't Learn in school.

With the first ships carrying enslaved people landed on America's coastline, the word

Napi might have already been born.

Its origins are likely derived from the word nap, the frizzled threads raising from a piece

of fabric.

Historians speculate that Nap took on a new meaning as a phrase for the coils and kinks

of black hair, particularly in connection with the colonial cotton field where our people toiled.

According to Silvio Torres Salient, a professor of humanities at Syracuse University, hair texture was one

of the many rationalizations of the perceived subhuman status of the African.

The term was just one way Europeans tried to rationalize their perceived superiority.

Never once to let anyone else define us. We've long reclaimed Nappy, and many wear it as a

term of endearment, often expressed in media with movies like NAPley Ever After and fashion

with brands like Nappy Head Club. Words are powerful, but so are we. Despite what anti-black systems and the people who uphold them say, we always have the power to ignore their definitions of us, reclaim words and spaces, and make them

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