Liberated threads : Black women, style, and the global politics of soul /
Ford, Tanisha C.,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Minority women
Women, Black
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Beauty, Personal
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in fashion
Globalization