From the Kitchen to the Parlor - Language And Becoming in African American Women's Hair Care

Informationen zum Autor Lanita Jacobs-Huey is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and co-affiliated with the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Klappentext When is hair "just hair" and when is it not "just hair"? Documenting the politics of African American women's hair, this multi-sited linguistic ethnography explores everyday interaction in beauty parlors, Internet discussions, comedy clubs, and other contexts to illuminate how and why hair matters in African American women's day-to-day experiences. Zusammenfassung When is hair "just hair" and when is it not "just hair"? Documenting the politics of African American women's hair! this multi-sited linguistic ethnography explores everyday interaction in beauty parlors! Internet discussions! comedy clubs! and other contexts to illuminate how and why hair matters in African American women's day-to-day experiences.

Product details

• Authors: Lanita Jacobs-Huey
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.2006
• EAN: 9780195304152
• ISBN: 978-0-19-530415-2
• No. of pages: 180
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Studies in Language and Gender; Studies in Language and Gender; Studies in Language Gender and Sexuality
• Subjects: Guides > Health > Beauty/cosmetics; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics