Hair Matters: Beauty, Power, and Black Women's Consciousness

by Ingrid Banks

Book Overview

Substantive, ethnographically informed research on the politics of Black hair

Drawing on interviews with over 50 women, from teens to seniors, Hair Matters is the first book on the politics of Black hair to be based on substantive, ethnographically informed research. Focusing on the everyday discussions that Black women have among themselves and about themselves, Ingrid Banks analyzes how talking about hair reveals Black women's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814713378
• ISBN13: 9780814713372
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"