Liberated threads
Subtitle: Black women, style, and the global politics of soul
By: Tanisha C. Ford
Series: Gender and American culture; Gender & American culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781469625157
Subjects: Stereotypes (Social psychology) in fashion; Globalization; Minority women; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics); Black Women; Personal Beauty
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Black women and the making of a modern soul style; title: Reimagining Africa : how Black women invented the language of soul in the 1950s; title: Harlem's "natural soul" : selling black beauty to the diaspora in the early 1960s; title: SNCC's soul sisters : respectability and the style politics of the civil rights movement; title: Soul style on campus : American college women and Black power fashion; title: We were people of soul : gender, violence, and Black Panther style in 1970s London; title: The soul wide world : the "Afro look" in South Africa from the 1970s to the new millennium; title: Epilogue : for Chelsea : soul style in the new millennium.