Hood /

Kinney, Alison,

Hood / Alison Kinney. - Reprinted edition. - x, 163 pages ; 17 cm. - Object lessons .

Includes bibliographical references and index.


Machine generated contents note: -- Chapter One: "That very, very simple thing about the hood" -- The Grim Reaper. The executioner and the executed. -- Chapter Two: The Struggle Against Terrorism -- Two Murals. The Ku Klux Klan. Lynching. The Spanish Inquisition. A Timeline of Hooding. Abu Ghraib. -- Chapter Three: Little Red Riding Hoodlum -- Our bodies, our hoods. The Seattle WTO protests. Black Blocs. -- Chapter Four: "It's What's Under the Hood That Counts" -- Everybody's hoods. Anti-hoodie initiatives. Black Lives Matter.

"A popular, personal, historical take on a singular garment and its myriad associations with death, violence, and identity"--

9781501307409 (paperback)


Hoods (Headgear)
Hoods (Headgear)--Social aspects.



--Reading book

391.43 / KIN