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==History== ===Africa=== According to Sherrow in ''Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History'', dreadlocks date back to ancient times in various cultures. In [[ancient Egypt]], Egyptians wore locked hairstyles and [[wig]]s appeared on [[bas-relief]]s, statuary and other artifacts.<ref>{{cite web |title=Image of Egyptian with locks. |url=http://www.freemaninstitute.com/Gallery/Egyp233_big_copy.jpg |access-date=6 October 2017 |website=freemaninstitute.com}}</ref> Mummified remains of Egyptians with locked wigs have also been recovered from archaeological sites.<ref>[http://www.egyptianmuseum.com/article16_torlife.html Egyptian Museum -"Return of the Mummy.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051230235837/http://www.egyptianmuseum.com/article16_torlife.html|date=2005-12-30}} ''Toronto Life – 2002''." Retrieved 01-26-2007.</ref> According to Maria Delongoria, braided hair was worn by people in the [[Sahara desert (ecoregion)|Sahara desert]] since 3000 BCE. Dreadlocks were also worn by followers of [[Abrahamic religions]]. For example, [[Christianity in Ethiopia|Ethiopian Coptic]] Bahatowie priests adopted dreadlocks as a hairstyle before the fifth century CE (400 or 500 CE). Locking hair was practiced by some ethnic groups in [[East Africa|East]], [[Central Africa|Central]], [[West Africa|West]], and [[Southern Africa|Southern]] Africa.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sherrow |first1=Victoria |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bETPEAAAQBAJ&dq=ethiopian+dreadlocks&pg=PA140 |title=Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History |year=2023 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=9781440873492 |page=140}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Delongoria |year=2018 |title=Misogynoir: Black Hair, Identity Politics, and Multiple Black Realities |url=https://www.jpanafrican.org/docs/vol12no8/12.8-3-Maria%20DeLongoria.pdf |journal=Journal of Pan African Studies |volume=12 |issue=8 |page=40 |access-date=25 October 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YWySINhFXP0C&q=dreadlocks |title=Dreads |year=1999 |publisher=Artisan Books |isbn=9781579651503 |page=22}}</ref> ===Pre-Columbian Americas=== [[Pre-Columbian]] [[Aztec]] priests were described in [[Aztec codices]] (including the [[Diego Durán#Literary works and influence|Durán Codex]], the [[Codex Tudela]] and the [[Codex Mendoza]]) as wearing their hair untouched, allowing it to grow long and matted.<ref>Berdán, Frances F. and Rieff Anawalt, Patricia (1997). [http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/index.php?one=azt&two=lif&id=334&typ=reg ''The Essential Codex Mendoza'']. London, England: University of California Press. pp 149.</ref> Bernal Diaz del Castillo records: <blockquote>There were priests with long robes of black cloth... The hair of these priests was very long and so matted that it could not be separated or disentangled, and most of them had their ears scarified, and their hair was clotted with blood.</blockquote> ===Hairstyles in Europe === [[File:NAMA Akrotiri 2.jpg|thumb|upright|right|Boxers with dreadlocks on a fresco from [[Akrotiri (prehistoric city)|Akrotiri]] (modern [[Santorini]], Greece), 1600–1500 BCE.<ref name="Poliakoff 19872">{{cite book |last=Poliakoff |first=Michael B. |title=Combat Sports in the Ancient World: Competition, Violence, and Culture |quote=The boxing boys on a fresco from Thera (now the Greek island of Santorini), also 1500 B.C.E., are less martial with their jewelry and long braids, and it is hard to imagine that they are engaged in a hazardous fight... |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |year=1987 |page=172 |isbn=9780300063127}}</ref><ref name="Blencowe 20132">{{cite book |last=Blencowe |first=Chris |title=YRIA: The Guiding Shadow |quote=... Archaeologist Christos Doumas, discoverer of Akrotiri, wrote: "Even though the character of the wall-paintings from Thera is Minoan, ... the boxing children with dreadlocks, and ochre-coloured naked fishermen proudly displaying their abundant hauls of blue and yellow fish. |publisher=Sidewalk Editions |year=2013 |page=36 |isbn=9780992676100}}</ref><ref name="Bloomer 2015">{{cite book |title= A Companion to Ancient Education |last= Bloomer |first= W. Martin |year= 2015 |publisher= John Wiley & Sons |isbn= 9781119023890|quote= Figure 2.1b Two Minoan boys with distinctive hairstyles, boxing. Fresco from West House, Thera (Santorini), ca. 1600–1500 BCE (now in the National Museum, Athens). |page=31 }}</ref>]] {{Multiple issues|{{more citations needed|date=June 2024}} {{section rewrite|date=June 2024}}|section=y}} The earliest known possible depictions of dreadlocks in Europe date back as far as 1600–1500 BCE in the [[Minoan Civilization]], centered in [[Crete]] (now part of [[Greece]]).<ref name="Blencowe 20132" /> [[Frescoes]] discovered on the [[Aegean island]] of [[Thera]] (modern [[Santorini]], Greece) portray individuals with long braided hair or long dreadlocks.<ref name="Poliakoff 19872" /><ref name="American Journal of Archaeology">{{cite journal|last1= Jenkins |first1= Ian |title= Archaic Kouroi in Naucratis: The Case for Cypriot Origin |journal= The American Journal of Archaeology |publisher= American Journal of Archaeology |volume=105 |issue=2 |date=2001 |pages=168–175 |doi= 10.2307/507269 |jstor= 507269 |issn=0002-9114 |quote= The hair in both is filleted into a series of fine dreadlocks, tucked behind the ears and falling on each shoulder and down the back. A narrow fillet passes around the forehead and disappears behind the ears. ... Two are in the British Museum (fig. 17) and another in Boston (fig. 18). These three could have been carved by the same hand. Distinctive points of comparison include the dreadlocks; high, prominent chest without division; sloping shoulders; manner of showing the arms by the side...the torso of a kouros, again in Boston (fig. 19), should probably also be assigned to this group. }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Sherrow |first1=Victoria |title=Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History |year=2023 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=9781440873492 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bETPEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA140 |page=140}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Dreads |year=1999 |publisher=Artisan Books |isbn=9781579651503 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YWySINhFXP0C&q=dreadlocks}}</ref> Another source describes the hair of the boys in the [[Akrotiri Boxer Fresco]] as long tresses, not dreadlocks. Tresses of hair are defined by [[Collins English Dictionary|Collins Dictionary]] as braided hair, braided plaits, or long loose curls of hair.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tress |url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/tress |website=Collins Dictionary |access-date=7 November 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Cartwright |first1=Mark |title=Akrotiri Frescoes |url=https://www.worldhistory.org/article/673/akrotiri-frescoes/ |website=World History Encyclopedia |publisher=World History Foundation |access-date=7 November 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Tress |url=https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tresses |website=Dictionary.com |access-date=7 November 2023}}</ref> ===Nineteenth century=== In [[Senegal]], the Baye Fall, followers of the [[Mouride]] movement, a Sufi movement of [[Islam]] founded in 1887 CE by [[Shaykh Aamadu Bàmba Mbàkke]], are famous for growing dreadlocks and wearing multi-colored gowns.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Crowder |first1=Nicole |date=23 January 2015 |title=The Roots of Fashion and Spirituality in Senegal's Islamic Brotherhood, the Baye Fall |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/01/23/the-roots-of-fashion-and-spirituality-in-senegals-islamic-brotherhood-the-baye-fall/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150125072020/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/01/23/the-roots-of-fashion-and-spirituality-in-senegals-islamic-brotherhood-the-baye-fall/ |archive-date=25 January 2015 |access-date=21 November 2023 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |agency=}}</ref> [[Cheikh Ibra Fall]], founder of the Baye Fall school of the [[Mouride Brotherhood]], popularized the style by adding a mystic touch to it.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Becker |first=Cynthia |date=Spring–Autumn 2011 |title=Hunters, Sufis, Soldiers, and Minstrels: The Diaspora Aesthetics of the Moroccan Gnawa |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/RESvn1ms23647786 |journal=Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics |volume=59-60 |pages=124–144 |doi=10.1086/RESvn1ms23647786 |issn=0277-1322|url-access=subscription }}</ref> This sect of Islam in Senegal, where Muslims wear ''ndjan'' (dreadlocks), aimed to Africanize Islam. Dreadlocks to this group of Islamic followers symbolize their religious orientation.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Botchway |first=De-Valera |date=2018 |title=...The Hairs of Your Head Are All Numbered: Symbolisms of Hair and Dreadlocks in the Boboshanti Order of Rastafari |url=https://www.jpanafrican.org/docs/vol12no8/12.8-2-Botchway.pdf |journal=Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies |volume=12 |issue=8 |page=25 |via=jpanafrican.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Weston |first=Mark |date=25 May 2016 |title=On the Frontier of Islam: The Maverick Mystics of Senegal |url=https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-25-on-the-frontier-of-islam-the-maverick-mystics-of-senegal/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160525150023/https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-25-on-the-frontier-of-islam-the-maverick-mystics-of-senegal/ |archive-date=25 May 2016 |work=[[Daily Maverick]]}}</ref> Jamaican Rastas also reside in Senegal and have settled in areas near Baye Fall communities. Baye Fall and Jamaican Rastas have similar cultural beliefs regarding dreadlocks. Both groups wear knitted caps to cover their locs and wear locs for religious and spiritual purposes.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Savishinsky |title=The Baye Faal of Senegambia: Muslim Rastas in the Promised Land? |journal=Journal of the International African Institute |date=1994 |volume=64 |issue=2 |pages=211–219 ]212 ]|doi=10.2307/1160980 |jstor=1160980 |s2cid=145284484 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1160980 |access-date=21 November 2023|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Male members of the Baye Fall religion wear locs to detach from mainstream Western ideals.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pellizzi |first1=Francesco |title=Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 59/60: Spring/Autumn 2011 |year=2012 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=9780873658621 |page=133 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=87JdFRl2aXAC&dq=baye+fall+dreadlocks&pg=PA133}}</ref> ===Twentieth century into present day=== In the 1970s, Americans and Britons attended reggae concerts and were exposed to various aspects of Jamaican culture, including dreadlocks. [[Hippies]] related to the Rastafarian idea of rejecting [[capitalism]] and [[colonialism]], symbolized by the name "[[Babylon#Cultural importance|Babylon]]". Rastafarians rejected Babylon in multiple ways, including by wearing their hair naturally in locs to defy Western standards of beauty. The 1960s was the height of the [[civil rights movement]] in the U.S., and some White Americans joined Black people in the fight against inequality and [[Jim Crow laws|segregation]] and were inspired by Black culture. As a result, some White people joined the Rastafarian movement. Dreadlocks were not a common hairstyle in the United States, but by the 1970s, some White Americans were inspired by reggae music, the Rastafarian movement, and [[African-American hair|African-American hair culture]] and started wearing dreadlocks.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Loadenthal |first1=Michael |title=Jah People: The Cultural Hybridity of White Rastafarians |journal=Glocalism |date=2013 |volume=1 |pages=12–18 |url=https://glocalismjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/loadenthal_gjcpi_2013_1.pdf |access-date=9 November 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wakengut |first1=Anastasia |title=Rastafari in Germany: Jamaican Roots and Global–Local Influences |journal=Student Anthropologist |date=2013 |volume=3 |issue=4 |pages=60–81 |doi=10.1002/j.sda2.20130304.0005 |doi-access=free }}</ref> According to authors Bronner and Dell Clark, the clothing styles worn by hippies in the 1960s and 1970s were copied from [[African-American culture]]. The word hippie comes from the [[African-American Vernacular English|African-American slang]] word [[Etymology of hippie|''hip'']]. African-American dress and hairstyles such as braids (often decorated with beads), dreadlocks, and language were copied by hippies and developed into a new countercultural movement used by hippies.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bronner |last2=Dell Clark |title=Youth Cultures in America [2 volumes]: [2 volumes] |year=2016 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=9781440833922 |page=358 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N7vOEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA358}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Grossberg |first1=Lawrence |title=Cultural Studies: Volume 7 |year=2005 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781134863495 |page=408 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ErqIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA408}}</ref> In Europe in the 1970s, hundreds of Jamaicans and other [[Afro-Caribbean people|Caribbean people]] immigrated to metropolitan centers of London, [[Birmingham, England|Birmingham]], Paris, and Amsterdam. Communities of [[Jamaicans]], [[Caribbean people|Caribbeans]], and Rastas emerged in these areas. Thus Europeans in these metropolitan cities were introduced to Black cultures from the Caribbean and Rastafarian practices and were inspired by [[Culture of the Caribbean|Caribbean culture]], leading some of them to adopt Black hair culture, music, and religion. However, the strongest influence of Rastafari religion is among [[Black Europeans of African ancestry|Europe's Black population]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Savishinsky |first1=Neil J. |title=Transnational Popular Culture and the Global Spread of the Jamaican Rastafarian Movement |journal=NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids |date=1994 |volume=68 |issue=3/4 |pages=265–267 |jstor=41849614 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41849614 |access-date=14 November 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Cashmore |title=Rastaman (Routledge Revivals): The Rastafarian Movement in England |year=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781135083748 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QeRSAQAAQBAJ&dq=rasta+tam+hat&pg=PP1}}</ref> When [[reggae music]], which espoused Rastafarian ideals, gained popularity and mainstream acceptance in the 1970s, thanks to [[Bob Marley]]'s music and cultural influence, dreadlocks (often called "dreads") became a notable fashion statement worldwide, and have been worn by prominent authors, actors, athletes, and rappers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.essence.com/hair/dreadlocks/celebrities-with-dreadlocks/|title=19 Celebs Slaying In Beautiful Locs|website=Essence|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Kuumba|first1=M.|last2=Ajanaku|first2=Femi|date=1998|title=Dreadlocks: The Hair Aesthetics of Cultural Resistance and Collective Identity Formation|journal=Mobilization: An International Quarterly|volume=3|issue=2|pages=227–243|doi=10.17813/maiq.3.2.nn180v12hu74j318}}</ref> Rastafari influenced its members worldwide to embrace dreadlocks. Black Rastas loc their hair to embrace their African heritage and accept African features as beautiful, such as dark skin tones, Afro-textured hair, and African facial features.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dread History: The African Diaspora, Ethiopianism, and Rastafari |url=https://smithsonianeducation.org/migrations/rasta/rasessay.html |website=Smithsonianeducation.org |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=7 December 2023}}</ref> [[File:MAVI Pitchfork Interview Profile.jpg|thumb|The rapper [[Mavi (rapper)|Mavi]] wearing dreadlocks]] [[Hip Hop]] and [[Rapping|rap]] artists such as [[Lauryn Hill]], [[Lil Wayne]], [[T-Pain]], [[Snoop Dogg|Snoop Dog]], [[J. Cole|J-Cole]], [[Wiz Khalifa]], [[Chief Keef]], [[Lil Jon]], and other artists wear dreadlocks, which further popularized the hairstyle in the 1990s, early 2000s, and present day. Dreadlocks are a part of hip-hop fashion and reflect Black cultural music of liberation and identity.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hook |first1=Sue |title=Hip-Hop Fashion |year=2010 |publisher=Capstone |isbn=9781429640176 |page=25 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z2Z7DRO5BygC&dq=afro-chic+dreadlocks&pg=PA29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Allah |first1=Sha Be |title=Exploring Culture: Dreadlocks and Hip Hop |url=https://thesource.com/2023/03/11/exploring-culture-dreadlocks-and-hip-hop/ |website=Thesource.com |date=11 March 2023 |access-date=8 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bennett |first1=Dionne |last2=Morgan |first2=Marcyliena |title=Hip-Hop & the Global Imprint of a Black Cultural Form |journal=Race, Inequality & Culture |date=2011 |volume=2 |issue=140 |pages=179–180 |jstor=23047460 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23047460 |access-date=8 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Fonseca |first1=Anthony J. |last2=Dawn Goldsmith |first2=Melissa Ursula |title=Hip Hop around the World [2 volumes]: An Encyclopedia [2 volumes] |year=2018 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=9780313357596 |pages=236, 282–283 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nOPNEAAAQBAJ&q=dreadlocks}}</ref> Many rappers and [[Afrobeat]] artists in [[Uganda]] wear locs, such as [[Navio (rapper)|Navio]], Delivad Julio, [[Fik Fameica]], Vyper Ranking, Byaxy, Liam Voice, and other artists. From reggae music to hip hop, rap, and Afrobeat, Black artists in the [[African diaspora]] wear locs to display their Black identity and culture.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kemigisha |first1=Martha |title=Hair goals: 8 male celebrities with gorgeous dreadlocks |url=https://www.pulse.ug/lifestyle/fashion/hair-goals-8-male-celebrities-with-gorgeous-dreadlocks/ryw5l5z |access-date=8 December 2023 |agency=Uganda Pulse |date=May 26, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=C.J. |first1=Nelson |title=How Afrobeats Artists Are Using Fashion to Tell Us Who They Are |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/features/afrobeats-fashion-evolution-history-feature-1235058245/ |website=Billboard.com |access-date=8 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Mercer |first1=Kobena |title=Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies |year=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781135204761 |pages=98, 105–109 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sVrbAAAAQBAJ&q=dreadlocks+&pg=PT138}}</ref> Youth in Kenya who are fans of rap and hip hop music, and Kenyan rappers and musicians, wear locs to connect to the history of the [[Mau Mau rebellion|Mau Mau freedom fighters]] who wore locs as symbols of anti-colonialism, and to Bob Marley, who was a Rasta.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ntarangwi |first1=Mwenda |title=East African Hip Hop: Youth Culture and Globalization |year=2009 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=9780252076534 |pages=32–33 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WLsvID258XMC&q=dreadlocks}}</ref> Hip hop and reggae fashion spread to [[Ghana]] and fused with traditional Ghanaian culture. [[African hip hop|Ghanaian musicians]] wear dreadlocks incorporating reggae symbols and hip hop clothes mixed with traditional Ghanaian textiles, such as wearing [[Head tie|Ghanaian headwraps]] to hold their locs.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Osumare |first1=H. |title=The Hiplife in Ghana: West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop |year=2012 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9781137021656 |pages=56, 90–91, 178 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dRrGAAAAQBAJ&dq=dreadlocks+hip+hop&pg=PP1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Talmor |first1=Ruti |title=Aesthetic Practices in African Tourism |year=2023 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9780429534768 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bmbjEAAAQBAJ&dq=dreadlocks+and+black+music&pg=PT131}}</ref> Ghanaian women wear locs as a symbol of African beauty. The beauty industry in Ghana believe locs are a traditional African hair practice and market hair care products to promote natural African hairstyles such as afros and locs.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kauppinen |first1=Anna-Rikka |last2=Spronk |first2=Rachel |title=Green Consumption: The Global Rise of Eco-Chic |year=2020 |pages=117–122 |doi=10.4324/9781003085508-11 |isbn=9781000182996 |chapter-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341437216 |chapter=Afro-chic: Beauty, Ethics, and 'Locks without Dread'}}</ref> The previous generations of Black artists have inspired younger contemporary Black actresses to loc their hair, such as [[Chloe Bailey]], [[Halle Bailey]], and [[Rhythm and blues|R&B]] and [[Pop music]] singer [[Willow Smith]]. More Black actors in Hollywood are choosing to loc their hair to embrace their Black heritage.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brown |first1=Nikki |title=19 Celebs Slaying In Beautiful Locs |url=https://www.essence.com/hair/dreadlocks/celebrities-with-dreadlocks/ |website=Essence.com |date=26 October 2020 |access-date=15 December 2023}}</ref> Although more Black women in Hollywood and the beauty and music industries are wearing locs, there has never been a Black [[Miss America]] winner with locs because there is pushback in the fashion industry towards Black women's natural hair. For example, model [[Adesuwa Aighewi]] locked her hair and was told she might not receive any casting calls because of her dreadlocks. Some Black women in modeling agencies are forced to straighten their hair. However, more Black women are resisting and choosing to wear Black hairstyles such as afros and dreadlocks in fashion shows and beauty pageants.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Thompson |first1=Cheryl |title=Black Women and Identity: What's Hair Got to Do With It? |journal=Michigan Feminist Studies |date=2008 |volume=22 |issue=1 |page=3 |url=https://www.casalakecounty.com/fileLibrary/Black%20Women%20and%20Identity_%20What%27s%20Hair%20Got%20to%20Do%20With%20It_.pdf |access-date=16 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Aighewi |first1=Adesuwa |title=The fashion industry said my dreadlocks would stop me working. They were wrong |url=https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2017/nov/01/the-fashion-industry-said-my-dreadlocks-would-stop-me-working-they-were-wrong |access-date=19 December 2023 |agency=The Guardian |date=2017}}</ref> For example, in 2007 Miss Universe Jamaica and Rastafarian, [[Zahra Redwood]], was the first Black woman to break the barrier on a world pageant stage when she wore locs, paving the way and influencing other Black women to wear locs in beauty pageants. In 2015, [[Miss Jamaica World]] Sanneta Myrie was the first contestant to wear locs to the [[Miss World|Miss World Pageant]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Donato |first1=Al |title=Miss Jamaica Is The First Contestant To Wear Dreadlocks to Miss World Pageant |url=https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/miss-jamaica-is-the-first-contestant-to-wear-dreadlocks-to-miss_n_8855790 |access-date=16 December 2023 |agency=Huffpost.com |date=2015}}</ref> In 2018, [[Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers]] of Britain was crowned Miss Universe wearing her locs and became the first Black British woman to win the competition with natural locs.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bremer |first1=Katherine |title=Dreadlocked Miss Jamaica puts Rastas in new light |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-missjamaica-idUSN2028940620070520/ |access-date=16 December 2023 |work=Reuters |date=2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Miss Universe Great Britain |url=https://going-natural.com/miss-universe-great-britain-is-a-beautiful-black-woman-who-rocks-locs/ |website=Going-natural.com |date=17 July 2018 |access-date=16 December 2023}}</ref> [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood cinema]] often uses the dreadlock hairstyle as a prop in movies for villains and pirates. According to author Steinhoff, this appropriates dreadlocks and removes them from their original meaning of Black heritage to one of dread and otherness. In the movie ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'', the pirate Jack Sparrow wears dreadlocks. Dreadlocks are used in Hollywood to mystify a character and make them appear threatening or living a life of danger. In the movie ''The Curse of the Black Pearl'', pirates were dressed in dreadlocks to signify their cursed lives.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Steinhoff |first1=Heike |title=Queer Buccaneers: (de)constructing Boundaries in the Pirates of the Caribbean Film Series Volume 10 of Transnational and Transatlantic American Studies |year=2011 |publisher=LIT Verlag Münster |isbn=9783643111005 |page=56 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m7iH9PsM4wgC&dq=dreadlocks+in+hollywood&pg=PA56}}</ref>
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