Black Hair Haptics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4052452 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amani Morrison (0000-0001-9413-9326, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 82-96 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Meridians (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1536-6936 • E-ISSN: 1547-8424 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/15366936-6955098 |
| OpenAlex | W2895263639 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 17 |
In the United States, black hair-that is, the hair of African-descended peoples-has a long and fraught political, economic, and social history that informs its contemporary reception: at the interstices of self-making, aesthetic expression, and respectability politics, black hair has been both overdetermined and underexplored as a site of intellectual inquiry. This essay aims to offer a critical examination of natural black hair as a central site of interpersonal negotiation for black women in the United States. Drawing on performance studies, cultural studies, and black feminist studies, I offer black hair haptics as an analytic for the racialized and gendered dimensions of quotidian public interpersonal engagement with black hair as an extension of the black body. I argue that black hair is a unique site of analysis for transgressions of socially appropriate interpersonal interaction
Affordance · Archaeology · Black hair · Genealogy · Interpersonal communication · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society
Embodying Black Experience
Black Skin, White Masks
Black Hair/Style Politics
No Tea, No Shade
Hair Story
The Erotic Life of Racism
Black Queer Studies
‘Bodies that Matter’
Image Matters
Spectacular Intimacies
Black Atlantic, Queer Atlantic
Black Anality
From Black is a Woman's Color
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution
Afro Images
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |