From the kitchen to the parlor language and becoming in African American women's hair care

Documenting the politics of African American women's hair, this multi-sited linguistic ethnography explores everyday interaction in beauty parlours, Internet discussions, comedy clubs and other contexts to illuminate how and why hair matters in African American women's day-to-day experienc...

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Main Author: Jacobs-Huey, Lanita
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2006, 2006
Series:Studies in language and gender / Studies in language and gender
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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