{"product_id":"hair-raising-noliwe-m-rooks-9780813523125","title":"Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Women","description":"We all know there is a politics of skin color, but is there a politics of hair?\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn this book, Noliwe Rooks explores the history and politics of hair and beauty culture in African American communities from the nineteenth century to the 1990s. She discusses the ways in which African American women have located themselves in their own families, communities, and national culture through beauty advertisements, treatments, and styles. Bringing the story into today's beauty shop, listening to other women talk about braids, Afros, straighteners, and what they mean today to grandmothers, mothers, sisters, friends, and boyfriends, she also talks about her own family and has fun along the way. \u003ci\u003eHair Raising \u003c\/i\u003eis that rare sort of book that manages both to entertain and to illuminate its subject.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Noliwe M. Rooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813523125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813523125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/1996 pg. 1784","brand":"Noliwe M. Rooks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992485691647,"sku":"9780813523125","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_18b8528f-193c-4b1c-9d60-fd045f64033f.jpg?v=1683319203","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hair-raising-noliwe-m-rooks-9780813523125","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}