Blackberries and redbones
Subtitle: critical articulations of black hair/body politics in Africana communities
By: edited by Regina E. Spellers and Kimberly R. Moffitt
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Hampton Press communication series
Publisher: Hampton Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cresskill, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9781572738805; 9781572738812
Description: This text features engaging scholarly essays, poems, and creative writings that all examine the menaing of the Black anatomy in our changing global world. The body, including its hair, is said to be read like a text where readers draw certain interpretations based on signs, symbols, and culture. Each chapter in the volume interrogates that notion by addressing the question, As a text how are Black bodies and Black hair read and understood in life, art, popular culture, mass media, or cross-cultural interactions. The aptness of this work lies in its ability to provide a meaningful and creative space to analyze body politics- highlighting the complexities surrounding these issues within, between, and outside Africana communities.--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The big girl's chair : a rhetorical analysis of how motions for kids markets relaxers to African American girls / Shauntae Brown White; title: Pretty color 'n good hair : Creole women of New Orleans and the politics of identity / Yaba Amgborale Blay; title: Invisible dread : from twisted : the dreadlocks chronicles / Bert Ashe; title: Social constructions of a Black woman's hair : critical reflections of a graying Sistah / Brenda J. Allen; title: What it feels like for a (Black gay HIV+) boy / Chris Bell; title: Dominican dance floor / Kiini Ibura Salaam; title: Covering up fat upper arms / Mary L. O'Neal; title: Cimmarronas, ciguapas, and senoras : hair, beauty, and national identity in the Dominican Republic / Ana-Maurine Lara; title: Of wigs and weaves, locks, and fades : a personal political hair story / Neal A. Lester; title: "Scatter the pigeons" : baldness and the performance of hyper-Black masculinity / E. Patrick Johnson; title: From air Jordan to jumpman : the black male body as commodity / Ingrid Banks; title: Cool pose on wheels : an exploration of the disabled Black male in film / Kimberly R. Moffitt; title: Decoding the meaning of tattoos : cluster criticism and the case of Tupac Shakur's body art / Carlos D. Morrison, Josette R. Hutton, and Ulysses Williams, Jr.; title: Blacks in white marble : interracial female subjects in mid-nineteenth-century neoclassicism / Charmaine Nelson; title: Changing hair/changing race : black authenticity, colorblindness; title: And hairy post-ethnic costumes in mixing Nia / Ralina L. Joseph; title: "I'm real" (Black) when I wanna be : examining J. Lo's racial assets / Sika Alaine Dagbovie and Zine Magubane; title: Diaspora in my hair : a poetic narrative of my experience in Europe / Nadège Tanite Clitandre; title: Broken mirrors and reflections of one's self : blackness, Indianness, and hybridity / Hershini Bhana Young; title: Sun kissed or sun cursed? : exploring color consciousness and Black women's tanning experiences / Regina E. Spellers; title: African men in the United States : stories of race, gender, sexuality and power / Hameed S. Williams (Herukhuti); title: Weaving messages of self-esteem : empowering mothers and daughters through hair braiding / Tracey Y. Lewis-Elligan; title: Divas to the dance floor please! : a neo-Black feminist readin(g) of cool pose / D. Nebi Hilliard; title: Coming out natural : dreaded desire, sex roles, and cornrows / L. H. Stallings; title: "I am more than a victim" : the slave woman stereotype in antebellum narratives by Black men / Ellesia A. Blaque; title: Two warring ideals, one dark body : hegemony, duality, and temporality of the black body in African-American religion / Stephen C. Finley; title: The snake that bit medusa : one (phenotypically) white woman's dreads / Kabira Z. Cadogan.