| Description |
xv, 256 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Gender and American culture |
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Gender & American culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Black women and the making of a modern soul style -- Reimagining Africa : how Black women invented the language of soul in the 1950s -- Harlem's "natural soul" : selling black beauty to the diaspora in the early 1960s -- SNCC's soul sisters : respectability and the style politics of the civil rights movement -- Soul style on campus : American college women and Black power fashion -- We were people of soul : gender, violence, and Black Panther style in 1970s London -- The soul wide world : the "Afro look" in South Africa from the 1970s to the new millennium -- Epilogue : for chelsea : soul style in the new millennium. |
| Summary |
The author explores how and why black women, from the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s through anti-apartheid activism in the 1980s and beyond, and in places as far-flung as New York City, Atlanta, London, and Johannesburg, used their clothing, jewelry, hair, and general "soul style" not simply as a fashion statement but as an integral part of their activism and as a powerful tool of resistance.--Adapted from publisher description. |
| Subject |
Minority women -- United States.
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Women, Black -- United States.
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Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- United States.
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Beauty, Personal -- United States.
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Stereotypes (Social psychology) in fashion -- United States.
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Globalization -- United States.
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Beauty, Personal. (OCoLC)fst00829396
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Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) (OCoLC)fst00922652
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Globalization. (OCoLC)fst00943532
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Minority women. (OCoLC)fst01023418
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Stereotypes (Social psychology) in fashion. (OCoLC)fst01911255
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Women, Black. (OCoLC)fst01178916
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| ISBN |
9781469625157 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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1469625156 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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9781469625164 (electronic book) |
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