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Liberated threads : Black women, style, and the global politics of soul /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ford, Tanisha C.
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Edition:1 Edition.
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.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.