Noliwe M. Rooks
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Recovering the Black Female Body
Self-Representation by African American Women
Edited by Michael Bennett and Vanessa D. Dickerson
Rutgers University Press
Recovering the Black Female Body recognizes the pressing need to highlight through scholarship the vibrant energy of African American women’s attempts to wrest control of the physical and symbolic construction of their bodies away from the distortions of others.
- Copyright year: 2000
Hair Raising
Beauty, Culture, and African American Women
Rutgers University Press
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.
- Copyright year: 1996
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