Liberated threads : Black women, style, and the global politics of soul / Tanisha C. Ford.
| Author/creator | Ford, Tanisha C. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1 edition. |
| Publication | Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2015. |
| Description | xv, 256 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Gender and American culture Gender & American culture. ^A228874 |
| Contents | Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2015006177 |
| ISBN | 9781469625157 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1469625156 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | HV1421 .F67 2015 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |