New growth : the art and texture of Black hair / Jasmine Nichole Cobb.
"From Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, "natural hair" has been associated with the Black freedom struggle. In New Growth Jasmine Nichole Cobb traces the history of Afro-textured coiffure, exploring it as a visual material through which to reimagine the sensual experience of Blackne...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Visual arts of Africa and its diasporas.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | "From Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, "natural hair" has been associated with the Black freedom struggle. In New Growth Jasmine Nichole Cobb traces the history of Afro-textured coiffure, exploring it as a visual material through which to reimagine the sensual experience of Blackness. Through close readings of slave narratives, scrapbooks, travel illustration, documentary film and photography, as well as collage, craft, and sculpture, from the nineteenth century to the present, Cobb shows how the racial distinctions ascribed to people of African descent become simultaneously visible and tactile. Whether examining Soul Train's and Ebony's promotion of the Afro hair style alongside cosmetics or how artists such as Alison Saar and Lorna Simpson underscore the construction of Blackness through the representation of hair, Cobb foregrounds the inseparability of Black hair's look and feel. Demonstrating that Blackness is palpable through appearance and feeling, Cobb reveals the various ways that people of African descent forge new relationships to the body, public space, and visual culture through the embrace of Black hair"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 200 pages, 30 pages of plates) : illustrations (some colour). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1478023708 9781478023708 |