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New growth : the art and texture of black hair
- Title
- New growth : the art and texture of black hair / Jasmine Nichole Cobb.
- Author
- Cobb, Jasmine Nichole
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
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- Description
- xv, 200 pages, 32 pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 23 cm.
- Summary
- "From Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, "natural hair" has been associated with the Black freedom struggle. 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."--
- Series Statement
- The visual arts of Africa and its diasporas
- Subject
- Hairdressing of Black people > Social aspects
- Hairdressing of African Americans > Social aspects
- Hairdressing of Black people > History
- Hairdressing of African Americans > History
- Black people > Race identity
- African Americans > Race identity
- Hairdressing of African Americans
- Hairdressing of Black people
- Social aspects
- Black people
- African Americans
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-192) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-573
- ISBN
- 9781478016434
- 1478016434
- 9781478019077
- 1478019077
- LCCN
- 2022020085
- OCLC
- 1301902697
- Author
- Cobb, Jasmine Nichole, author.
- Title
- New growth : the art and texture of black hair / Jasmine Nichole Cobb.
- Publisher
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The visual arts of Africa and its diasporas
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-192) and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-573