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A review by drjmt
Don't Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri
challenging
emotional
informative
medium-paced
4.0
I found this essay collection very thought provoking and interesting. As a professional mathematician I loved the final essay relating how "complicated" mathematical concepts in the Western cannon arise naturally in various parts of African culture. I'm still internalising the framing and historical/cultural content of the essay and it is going to influence how I think about mathematics going forwards! This book was more polemic and historical than I was expecting (I thought it would lean more memoir) but once I got into it I really liked the style.