Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Women

We all know there is a politics of skin color, but is there a politics of hair?In...
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SKU: 9780813523125
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Author: Noliwe M. Rooks
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Women by Rooks, Noliwe M.

Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Women

€76,44

Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Women

€76,44
Author: Noliwe M. Rooks
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Noliwe M. Rooks
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 07/01/1996
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780813523125


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 07/01/1996 pg. 1784

About the Author

Noliwe M. Rooks is an assistant professor of English and the coordinator of African American Studies at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. She was the associate editor of Paris Connections: African American Artists in Paris, winner of a 1993 American Book Award.


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