New growth : the art and texture of black hair / Jasmine Nichole Cobb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cobb, Jasmine Nichole, author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Visual arts of Africa and its diasporas

The visual arts of Africa and its diasporas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hairdressing of Black people--Social aspects.

Hairdressing of Black people.

Hairdressing of African Americans--Social aspects.

Hairdressing of African Americans.

Hairdressing of Black people--History.

Hairdressing of African Americans--History.

Black people--Race identity.

Black people.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 200 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

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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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

New Growth: Black Hair and Liberation

Archive: Slavery, Sentiment, and Feeling

Texture: The Coarseness of Racial Capitalism

Touch: Camera Images and Contact Revisions

Surface: The Art of Black Hair

Crowning Gestures.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Cobb, Jasmine Nichole. New growth.

ISBN:

9781478023708

1478023708

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.