Cobb New Growth

The Art and Texture of Black Hair
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2370-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

Reihe: The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas

Through close readings of slave narratives, scrapbooks, travel illustration, documentary film and photography, as well as collage, craft, and sculpture, Jasmine Nichole Cobb explores Black hair as a visual material through which to reimagine the sensual experience of Blackness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cobb, Jasmine Nichole

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations viii
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. New Growth: Black Hair and Liberation 1
1. Archive: Slavery, Sentiment, and Feeling 25
2. Texture: The Coarseness of Racial Capitalism 57
3. Touch: Camera Images and Contact Revisions 97
4. Surface: The Art of Black Hair 131
Conclusion. Crowning Gestures 155
Notes 161
Bibliography 177
Index 193

Über Autor(innen)

Jasmine Nichole Cobb is Professor of African and African American Studies and of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Picture Freedom: Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century.