Name/Title
Liberated threads : Black women, style, and the global politics of soulEntry/Object ID
GT596.F67 2015 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." -- PUBLISHERLexicon
Search Terms
black people--clothing, black women--united states, clothing and dress--african diasporaBook Details
Author
Tanisha C. FordPublisher
University of North Carolina PressDate Published
2015ISBN
9781469636139Notes
Length: 256General Notes
Note Type
ContentsNote
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.