Liberated threads : Black women, style, and the global politics of soul /
Ford, Tanisha C.
Liberated threads : Black women, style, and the global politics of soul / Tanisha C. Ford The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, ©2015 - xv, 256 pages ; 24 cm. - Gender and American culture .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781469636139
2015006177
Minority women--United States.
Women, Black--United States.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--United States.
Beauty, Personal--United States.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in fashion--United States.
Globalization--United States.
HV1421 / .F67 2015
391.0082/0973
Liberated threads : Black women, style, and the global politics of soul / Tanisha C. Ford The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, ©2015 - xv, 256 pages ; 24 cm. - Gender and American culture .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781469636139
2015006177
Minority women--United States.
Women, Black--United States.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--United States.
Beauty, Personal--United States.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in fashion--United States.
Globalization--United States.
HV1421 / .F67 2015
391.0082/0973