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Liberated threads : Black women, style, and the global politics of soul / Tanisha C. Ford The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Gender and American culturePublication details: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, ©2015Description: xv, 256 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781469636139
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 391.0082/0973 23
LOC classification:
  • HV1421 .F67 2015
Contents:
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.
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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.