Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Liberated threads

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

906027438

Responsibility statement

Tanisha C. Ford

Series statement

Gender and American culture

Sub title

Black women, style, and the global politics of soul

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

Table Of 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

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