The politics and poetics of African American women's identity performances: (Re) reading black hair in fictional /nonfictional writings and cultural productions

This study considers how some African American women use their cultural production (e.g., fictional/non-fictional writings, films, prose, plays, comics, art, and music) to show how hair is central to their identity (re)construction. This study is multidisciplinary in its approach, and uses paradigms...

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Main Author: Whitmal, Eunice Angelica
Language:EN
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2007
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3347799