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Liberated Threads : Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul /
From the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s through antiapartheid activism in the 1980s and beyond, black women have used their clothing, hair, and style not simply as a fashion statement but as a powerful tool of resistance. Whether using stiletto heels as weapons to protect against poli...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2015]
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| Edición: | 1 edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.