"head rag" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 6, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 86:",
          "text": "This business of the head-rag irked her endlessly. But Jody was set on it. Her hair was NOT going to show in the store.",
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          "text": "1941, Sallie Carder (interviewee) in Federal Writers’ Project, Slave Narratives, Volume 13, Oklahoma Narratives, p. 27,\nDuring my wedding I wore a blue calico dress, a man's shirt tail as a head rag, and a pair of brogan shoes."
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          "text": "1981, Toni Morrison, interview with Charles Ruas in Danille Taylor-Guthrie (ed.), Conversations with Toni Morrison, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994, p. 114,\n[…] black women slaves in this country were not, by and large, domestics in the house, with the headrag. They worked out in the fields […]"
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          "text": "Twain chooses here one of the most powerful and persistent racial markers with which to identify Roxana—her head rag. From this moment on, Roxana is “black”—her race does “show.”",
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          "text": "2014, Nikky Finney, Introduction to Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems by James Baldwin, Boston: Beacon Press,\nHansberry died from cancer at the age of thirty-four, soon after her great work, A Raisin in the Sun, yanked the apron and head rag off the institution of the American theater, Broadway, 1959."
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