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The hidden racist history of hair loss

By Glen Jankowski, Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University
Hair loss is common in men and women, particularly with age – for example, androgenetic alopecia (or pattern baldness) affects 80% of men and 40% of women. For the most part, it can be physically inconsequential.

Yet, modern society has a distaste for hair loss. Look at how news stories have speculated about whether ten-year-old Prince George and his younger brother, Louis, will inherit their father’s “baldness…The Conversation


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