Hair Matters: Beauty, Power, and Black Women's Consciousness
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Substantive, ethnographically informed research on the politics of Black hair Drawing on interviews with over 50 women, from teens to seniors, Hair Matters is the first book on the politics of Black hair to be based on substantive, ethnographically informed research. Focusing on the everyday discuss...
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Substantive, ethnographically informed research on the politics of Black hair Drawing on interviews with over 50 women, from teens to seniors, Hair Matters is the first book on the politics of Black hair to be based on substantive, ethnographically informed research. Focusing on the everyday discussions that Black women have among themselves and about themselves, Ingrid Banks analyzes how talking about hair reveals Black women's ideas about race, gender, sexuality, beauty, and power. Ultimately, what emerges is a survey of Black women's consciousness within both their own communities and mainstream culture at large. Read more
Features
- Focusing on the everyday discussions that Black women have among themselves and about themselves, Ingrid Banks analyzes how talking about hair reveals Black women's ideas about race, gender, sexuality, beauty, and power
- Ultimately, what emerges is a survey of Black women's consciousness within both their own communities and mainstream culture at large
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Accessibility
- Learn more
- Publication Date
- January 1, 2000
- Language
- English
- File Size
- 3.0 MB
- Screen Reader
- Supported
- Enhanced Typesetting
- Enabled
- X-ray
- Not Enabled
- Word Wise
- Enabled
- Print Length
- 226 pages
- Isbn-13
- 978-0814709023
- Page Flip
- Enabled
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