New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair

by Jasmine Nichole Cobb

Book Overview

From Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, "natural hair" has been associated with the Black freedom struggle. In New Growth 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 illustrations, documentary films, and photography as well as collage, craft, and sculpture, from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478019077
• ISBN13: 9781478019077
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"