From the Kitchen to the Parlor: Language and Becoming in African American Women’s Hair Care (Language and Gender Studies) (Paperback)
Review
“This work is not only deeply original but it is also brave: Jacobs-Huey has tackled a range of issues that are highly charged, both in the arena of racial politics and, even trickier for her, in negotiating her own place in multiple communities of practice. That she so successfully balances the scholarly, the political, and the personal is testament to her rare combination of considerable analytic talent with keen political and emotional intelligence.”–Sally McConnell-Ginet, Department of Linguistics, Cornell University, co-author of Language and Gender “Dr. Jacobs-Huey’s research on the symbolic and moral meanings of hair in African American communities invigorates the analysis of the linguistic and social construction of personal and group identity. Jacobs-Huey demonstrates that ‘hair is not just hair’ in the eyes of African Americans, a social fact that, she argues, evidences a wide gulf between European American and African American women. Jacobs-Huey exam (more…)
