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Wash day / Arwa Michelle Mboya.
Van Pelt Library PR9381.9.M35 W38 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mboya, Arwa Michelle, author.
- Series:
- Using electricity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women, Black--Poetry.
- Women, Black.
- Hair--Poetry.
- Hair.
- Hairdressing of Black people--Poetry.
- Hairdressing of Black people.
- Video blogs--Poetry.
- Video blogs.
- Genre:
- Computer poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 93 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Denver : Counterpath, 2023.
- Summary:
- "Wash Day is an exploration of language around Wash Day rituals for Black Women. The book leverages a dataset of transcripts from YouTube videos of Black hair vloggers sharing their Wash Day rituals, along with stories of their lives as told through hair. This work uses language as data, by transforming and training algorithms to produce new inter-woven texts that shed light on the intimacy and sensual nature of Wash Day, and what Black Hair means to Black Women"-- Provided by publisher.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781933996813
- 1933996811
- OCLC:
- 1373237678
- Publisher Number:
- 99995600193
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