From Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, "natural hair" has been
associated with the Black freedom struggle. In New Growth Jasmine
Nichole Cobb traces the history of Afro-textured coiffure,
exploring it as a visual material through which to reimagine the
sensual experience of Blackness. Through close readings of slave
narratives, scrapbooks, travel illustrations, documentary films,
and photography as well as collage, craft, and sculpture, from the
nineteenth century to the present, Cobb shows how the racial
distinctions ascribed to people of African descent become
simultaneously visible and tactile. Whether examining Soul Train's
and Ebony's promotion of the Afro hairstyle alongside styling
products or how artists such as Alison Saar and Lorna Simpson
underscore the construction of Blackness through the representation
of hair, Cobb foregrounds the inseparability of Black hair's look
and feel. Demonstrating that Blackness is palpable through
appearance and feeling, Cobb reveals the various ways that people
of African descent forge new relationships to the body, public
space, and visual culture through the embrace of Black hair.
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