Liberated threads: black women, style, and the global politics of soul

In: Gender and American Culture

Abstract

Cover -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Black Women and the Making of a Modern Soul Style -- 1 Reimagining Africa: How Black Women Invented the Language of Soul in the 1950s -- 2 Harlem's "Natural Soul": Selling Black Beauty to the Diaspora in the Early 1960s -- 3 SNCC's Soul Sisters: Respectability and the Style Politics of the Civil Rights Movement -- 4 Soul Style on Campus: American College Women and Black Power Fashion -- 5 We Were People of Soul: Gender, Violence, and Black Panther Style in 1970s London -- 6 The Soul Wide World: The "Afro Look" in South Africa from the 1970s to the New Millennium -- EPILOGUE: For Chelsea: Soul Style in the New Millennium -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.