Liberated threads : Black women, style, and the global politics of soul / Tanisha C. Ford.

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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" no...

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Main Author: Ford, Tanisha C. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Series:Gender & American culture.
Subjects:
Minority women > United States.
Women, Black > United States.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) > United States.
Beauty, Personal > United States.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in fashion > United States.
Globalization > United States.
Beauty, Personal.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Globalization.
Minority women.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in fashion.
Women, Black.
United States.
Physical Description:xv, 256 pages ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
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.