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Alison Kinney - Hood - 9781501307409 - V9781501307409
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Hood

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Description for Hood Paperback. Series: Object Lessons. Num Pages: 176 pages, 3 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: HPN; JFCD; JFCK; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 120. Weight in Grams: 457.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Object Lessons
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781501307409
SKU
V9781501307409
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5

About Alison Kinney
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.

Reviews for Hood
Provocative and highly informative, Alison Kinney's Hood considers this seemingly neutral garment accessory and reveals it to be vexed by a long history of violence, from the Grim Reaper to the KKK and beyond-a history we would do well to address, and redress. Readers will never see hoods the same way again.
Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man ... Read more

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