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Author
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Offers a meditation on architecture and how it speaks to human experience, looking at what buildings and the spaces they contain say about the people who inhabit them, as well as the effects that those spaces have on them.
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xv, 256 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
The author explores how and why black women, from the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s through anti-apartheid activism in the 1980s and beyond, and in places as far-flung as New York City, Atlanta, London, and Johannesburg, used their clothing, jewelry, hair, and general "soul style" not simply as a fashion statement but as an integral part of their activism and as a powerful tool of resistance.--Adapted from publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
vii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Strings weaves together a historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific literature and medical journals--where fat bodies were once praised--showing that fat phobia, as it relates to black women, did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment era belief that fatness was evidence of "savagery" and racial inferiority. The...
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