Hair raising : beauty, culture, and African American women

著者

    • Rooks, Noliwe M.

書誌事項

Hair raising : beauty, culture, and African American women

Noliwe M. Rooks

Rutgers University Press, c1996

  • : cloth : alk. paper
  • : pbk

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-156) and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: cloth : alk. paper ISBN 9780813523118

内容説明

Exploring the significance of hair in African American culture, this book examines how women have redefined beauty for themselves and used their hair as a symbol of self-confidence and advancement. The author discusses what the various methods of wearing hair mean to family and friends.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780813523125

内容説明

We all know there is a politics of skin color, but is there a politics of hair?In this book, Noliwe Rooks explores the history and politics of hair and beauty culture in African American communities from the nineteenth century to the 1990s. She discusses the ways in which African American women have located themselves in their own families, communities, and national culture through beauty advertisements, treatments, and styles. Bringing the story into today's beauty shop, listening to other women talk about braids, Afros, straighteners, and what they mean today to grandmothers, mothers, sisters, friends, and boyfriends, she also talks about her own family and has fun along the way. Hair Raising is that rare sort of book that manages both to entertain and to illuminate its subject.

目次

Nappi by nature: afros, hot combs, and black pride Beauty, race, and black pride Advertising contradictions Broadening representational boundaries Gender, hair, and African American women's magazines In search of connections

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