From the Kitchen to the Parlor

Language and Becoming in African American Women's Hair Care

Lanita Jacobs-Huey (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2006
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-530416-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Lanita Jacobs-Huey is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and co-affiliated with the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.

Introduction: From the Kitchen to the Parlor
1: Negotiating Expert and Novice Identities through Client-stylist Interactions
2: "We Are Like Doctors": Socializing Cosmetologists into the Discourse of Science
3: A License to Touch: Cosmetology as a Divine Calling
4: Gender, Authenticity, and Hair in African American Stand-up Comedy
5: "BTW, How Do You Wear Your Hair?": Gender and Race in Computer-mediated Hair Debates
6: Constructing and Contesting Knowledge in Women's Cross-cultural Hair Testimonies
7: Critical Reflections on Language, Gender, and "Native" Anthropology
Appendix: Transcription Conventions

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.4.2006
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Language and Gender
Zusatzinfo	12 halftones, 1 line drawing
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 234 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-19-530416-0 / 0195304160
ISBN-13	978-0-19-530416-9 / 9780195304169
Zustand	Neuware