Thread:GodzillaFan1/@comment-28171460-20170701162723/@comment-28171460-20170702143923

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Cornrows happened to be a relatively popular style of hair in the 1990s. According to Wikipedia, cornrows were popular in the 1960s/70s, but became popular again in the 1990s when Allen Iverson repopularized the hairstyle.

The only other times that I can find cornrows mentioned in the Goosebumps series was in The Cuckoo Clock of Doom,


 * "Then I noticed a pretty girl with cornrows and three earrings in one ear."

That character could honestly be any race. It's not racist to describe a character as having a hair style that was popular at the time.

From what I can tell, there are many Goosebumps characters who could have been any race, but the book never entirely specified. Like in The Horror at Camp Jellyjam, the book seems to suggest that Wendy's parents are a biracial couple, but it never quite specifies; the book only says that Wendy, her father, and her brother look different from their mother because they have much darker skin and hair.