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Twisted : my dreadlock chronicles

Ashe, Bert (Author).

Summary: "A personal account of an African-American professor's mid-life experiences when he decides to grow dreadlocks, with a cultural and political history of dreadlocks"--

Record details

ISBN: 1932841962
ISBN: 9781932841961
Physical Description: 243 pages ; 20 cm
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Publisher: Chicago : Bolden, an Agate imprint, [2015].
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (239-240).

Formatted Contents Note:

Origins 5 -- Intentionality (i) 7 -- Going Outside (i) 9 -- Art, Science, Religion (i) 13 -- Going Outside (ii) 19 -- American Joker 23 -- Dreadlocks, My Favorite Hairstyle 29 -- Advertisements for Our Selves 31 -- Internationality (ii) 36 -- Growth 45 -- Original Dread (iv) 47 -- Barely Avoided Spit-Take 51 -- "Professorial." (i) 54 -- Art, Science, Religion (ii) 60 -- Tied Up/Tied Down (i) 69 -- Cousins 77 -- Twisted 81 -- Nature vs. "Nature" (i) 83 -- Veteran Responses/Rookie Responses 95 -- Pure (i) 99 -- Style-ish 102 -- Golden Age 109 -- "A Symbolically Aggressive Profusion of Kinks" 111 -- Border Patrol (i) 115 -- A Thick, Matted Rorschach Test 119 -- Fuzzy Phase (i) 130 -- Nature vs. "Nature" (iii) 138 -- Against "Dredloc" 146 -- Five Charged, On-Screen Seconds 154 -- Border Patrol (ii) 165 -- Inscrutability (ii) 170 -- Dread Lit Syllabus (v) 176 -- Locked 183 -- Closer 185 -- Pure (vi) 193 -- Open Letter to a Dread-Lord 204 -- Inscrutability (iii) 207 -- Confession (II) 221 -- Dreadlocks Is Dead 223 -- Dreadlocks for Life 232.