From the Kitchen to the Parlor
Language and Becoming in African American Women's Hair Care
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:27th Apr '06
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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.
This work is not only deeply original but it is also brave: Jacobs-Huey has tackled a range of issues that are highly charged, both in the arena of racial politics and, even trickier for her, in negotiating her own place in multiple communities of practice. That she so successfully balances the scholarly, the political, and the personal is testament to her rare combination of considerable analytic talent with keen political and emotional intelligence. * Sally McConnell-Ginet, Department of Linguistics, Cornell University, co-author of Language and Gender *
ISBN: 9780195304169
Dimensions: 234mm x 160mm x 15mm
Weight: 318g
200 pages