Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Women
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (962 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813523125 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Not what I had hoped. It should not take a long time to read a book of this size. And yet it is. The author seems to have lost focus when writing on this particular subject.It feels like a biography on Madam CJ Walker more than a book on the culture itself. Granted, Madam CJ should be mentioned. However, include the other black entrepreneurs in this field from the same er. You'll refer to it over and over again A Customer I used this book in several college papers I wrote as an undergraduate student, a paper I published on the politics of hair among children of African decent, and I still read it today. Rooks talks about hair and African women in advertising, popular and political culture and she really explains the historical contexts of these hair issues. A great re. "Very Personable and Deep Book" according to ~Sunshine~. I think that this was an awsome read. It talks about how African American women relate things with psychology, culture and hair. To me this book was very personal. For many women hair is more than just hair and there are lots of complexities as to why we wear our hair the way we may, or who makes those choices and how society may feel about ourt hair
Rooks is an assistant professor of English and the coordinator of African American Studies at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Noliwe M. She was the associate editor of Paris Connections: African American Artists in Paris, winner of a 1993 American Book Award.
From Booklist Rooks takes an interesting look at the social and political implications that hair has held for African American women. The six chapters discuss hair and its connection to black pride, race, advertising, gender, and women's magazines. She has used advertisements from different periods to trace representations of hair, which she then analyzes to show the political implications for women. Although Rooks' work is written in an academic style, the content is so compelling, readers will be int
She discusses the ways in which African American women have located themselves in their own families, communities, and national culture through beauty advertisements, treatments, and styles. We all know there is a politics of skin color, but is there a politics of hair?In this book, Noliwe Rooks explores the history and politics of hair and beauty culture in African American communities from the nineteenth century to the 1990s. Bringing the story into today's beauty shop, listening to other women talk about braids, Afros, straighteners, and what they mean today to grandmothers, mothers, sisters, friends, and boyfriends, she also talks about her own family and has fun along the way. Hair Raising is that rare sort of book that manages both to entertain and to illuminate its subject.