Hood by Kinney, Alison

Hood (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501307409)

Vendor: Alison Kinney
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$14.95
$14.95
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Hood by Kinney, Alison

Hood

$14.95
Hood by Kinney, Alison

Hood

$14.95
Format: Paperback
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

We all wear hoods: the Grim Reaper, Red Riding Hood, torturers, executioners and the executed, athletes, laborers, anarchists, rappers, babies in onesies, and anyone who's ever grabbed a hoodie on a chilly day. Alison Kinney's Hood explores the material and symbolic vibrancy of this everyday garment and political semaphore, which often protects the powerful at the expense of the powerless-with deadly results. Kinney considers medieval clerics and the Klan, anti-hoodie campaigns and the Hooded Man of Abu Ghraib, the Inquisition and the murder of Trayvon Martin, uncovering both the hooded perpetrators of violence and the hooded victims in their sights.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Author: Alison Kinney
ISBN-10: 1501307401
ISBN-13: 9781501307409
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2016
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 6.50h x 4.75w x 0.56d
By Alison Kinney
By Alison Kinney
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Alison Kinney is a writer based in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She is a regular correspondent at The Paris Review Daily, and her writing also appears online at The New Yorker, Harper's, Lapham's Quarterly, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Longreads, Hyperallergic, L.A. Review of Books, The New York Times, The New Inquiry, New Republic, VAN Magazine, and other publications.

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