Vaseline, Canerow & The Ponytail

On this episode, Dr. Ping-Ann is a professor of Anthropology and mixed race. She is Akan-Ghanaian and Chinese-Malaysian heritage, and Trinidadian up-bringing. Dr. Ping-Ann shares about her hardships on her hair journey and how her daughter’s hair journey is helping her fall in love with her own. Enjoy! 

Her Bio:

Ping-Ann Addo (she/her) is an ethnographer who is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a core faculty member in the Critical Ethnic and Community Studies Master’s program and the Native American and Indigenous Studies minor. Her book, Creating a Nation with Cloth: Tradition, Textiles, and Tongan Women(Berghahn Books, 2013), analyzes women’s agency, nation-building, and cross-generational immigrant identity in contemporary New Zealand through the shifting value of traditional wealth. She conducts ethnographic fieldwork in Boston at the intersection of Caribbean immigrant identity, place-keeping, and resistance to gentrification; has conducted fieldwork in Boston and Trinidad; and has story consultant on the documentary film (More Than Mas’, 2022) about Caribbean Carnival costume, competition, and the multiple meanings of victory in Boston. Ping-Ann serves on the academic team for the United Maroon Indigenous Peoples and as an ethnographer of their emergent social movement, focusing on women and youth-led processes of earth-care, food sovereignty, and healing. Her related forthcoming edited volume is entitled The Spirit of Marronage: Expressions of Afrikan Indigenous Self-Determination (Vernon Press). She is of Akan-Ghanaian and Chinese-Malaysian heritage, and Trinidadian up-bringing. She is a mother, partner, daughter, auntie, friend, and collaborator.

THE CHAIR (S2/Ep61) —Vaseline, Canerow & The Ponytail

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My explorations through poetry, diary entries and photography as a Black woman, an educator in Guangzhou, China.
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