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

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