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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.

Table of Contents
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

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      Publisher: Duke University Press
      Publication Date: 30/12/2022
      ISBN13: 9781478019077, 978-1478019077
      ISBN10: 1478019077
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      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

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