In his newest novel, Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles, Bert Ashe uses his own hair-locking experience to explain the history of dreadlocks, and unpack complicated issues of identity, gender, and ...

The anxieties around dreadlocks, known as locs, are particularly acute for middle-class blacks, who often straddle the fence of what’s respectable.

Story is on Bert Ashe and his dreadlocks, about which he's written a book that will be released in June, "Twisted." We have photos of him at the University of Richmond, where he teaches.