An old instructional video on how to offer an afro haircut to white clients is interspersed with the testimony of Owusu’s mother, who worked as a hairstylist at a hair salon with predominantly white clientele. White Afro offers a rare perspective on the afro haircut as an undeniable hallmark of the “Black Power” liberation movements and also shows how non-Black hairdressers can use their salons as spaces for political change.