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.
| ISBN: | 9780195304152 |
| Publication date: | 27th April 2006 |
| Author: | Lanita Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Southern Californi JacobsHuey |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 200 pages |
| Series: | Studies in Language and Gender |
| Genres: |
Gender studies: women and girls Ethnic studies Sociolinguistics |