Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul (Gender and American Culture) - 9781469636139

The author explores how and why black women, from the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s through anti-apartheid activism in the 1980s and beyond, and in places as far-flung as New York City, Atlanta, London, and Johannesburg, used their clothing, jewelry, hair, and general "soul style" not simply as a fashion statement but as an integral part of their activism and as a powerful tool of resistance.--Adapted from publisher description.

• | Author: Tanisha C. Ford
• | Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• | Publication Date: August 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1469636131
• | ISBN-13: 9781469636139