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BOOK
Title Hot comb / Ebony Flowers
Imprint [Montréal, Québec] : Drawn & Quarterly, [2019]
©2019

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Edition First edition
Descript 180 pages chiefly illustrations 23 cm
Note "Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into Black women's lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular story "Hot Comb" is about a young girl's first perm--a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming "too white" in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved to. In "Virgin Hair" taunts of "tender-headed" sting as much as the perm itself. It's a scenario that repeats fifteen years later as an adult when, tired of the maintenance, Flowers shaves her head only to be hurled new put-downs. Realizations about race, class, and the imperfections of identity swirl through Flowers' stories and ads, which are by turns sweet, insightful, and heartbreaking."-- Provided by publisher
Subject Flowers, Ebony -- Comic books, strips, etc
Women, Black -- Social life and customs -- Comic books, strips, etc
Women, Black -- Race identity -- Comic books, strips, etc
Hairdressing of Blacks -- Comic books, strips, etc
Hairdressing of Blacks -- Social aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc
Hair -- Social aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc
Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc
Hairdressing of Blacks.
Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects.
Hair -- Social aspects.
Women, Black -- Social life and customs.
Serienoveller
Tecknade serier
Biografiska skildringar
Autobiographical comics
Graphic novels
Comic books, strips, etc
Autobiographical comics.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Comics (Graphic works)
Comics (Graphic works)
Autobiographical comics.
Classmark 305.48/896
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He.05
ISBN/ISSN 9781770463486 (paperback)
1770463488 (paperback)
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