Don't Touch My Hair
(Sprache: Englisch)
The erasure, appropriation and stigma of the reaction to black hair even among well-meaning liberals is taken stock of in an engagement with body politics comparable to John Berger, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Renni Eddo-Lodge. Presents the attitude to hair as a blueprint for decolonisation.
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The erasure, appropriation and stigma of the reaction to black hair even among well-meaning liberals is taken stock of in an engagement with body politics comparable to John Berger, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Renni Eddo-Lodge. Presents the attitude to hair as a blueprint for decolonisation.Autoren-Porträt von Emma Dabiri
Emma Dabiri is a teaching fellow in the African department at SOAS, a Visual Sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths and author of the Sunday Times bestseller What White People Can Do Next and Don't Touch My Hair. She has presented several television and radio programmes including BBC Radio 4's critically-acclaimed documentaries 'Journeys into Afro-futurism' and 'Britain's Lost Masterpieces'.
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- Autor: Emma Dabiri
- 2020, 256 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 014198628X
- ISBN-13: 9780141986289
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.03.2020
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Englisch
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Emma Dabiri's groundbreaking Don't Touch My Hair is a scintillating, intellectual investigation into black women and the very serious business of our hair, as it pertains to race, gender, social codes, tradition, culture, cosmology, maths, politics, philosophy and history, and also the role of hairstyles in pre-colonial Africa Bernardine Evaristo The Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year
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