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

Ford, Tanisha C. (author.).

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's description.

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Record details

ISBN: 9798890846877
ISBN: 9781469625164
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 256 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Distributor: [Getzville, New York] : William S. Hein & Company, [2017]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-235) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on PDF title page, viewed January 14, 2018.