Hair Matters: Beauty, Power and Black Women's Consciousness

Hair Matters: Beauty, Power and Black Women's Consciousness

by IngridBanks (Author)

Synopsis

A 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, it analyzes how talking about hair reveals black women's ideas about race, gender, sexuality, beauty, and power.

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10 in stock

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 31 Oct 2000

ISBN 10: 0814713378
ISBN 13: 9780814713372