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Series: Object Lessons
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Hood
A popular, personal, historical take on a singular garment and its myriad associations with death, violence, and identity.
A popular, personal, historical take on a singular garment and its myriad associations with death, violence, and identity.
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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, labourers, 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 Inquisition and the murder of Trayvon Martin, uncovering both the hooded perpetrators of violence and the hooded victims in their sights.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Series: Object Lessons
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Hood by Alison Kinney explores the complex history of a seemingly ordinary garment, revealing its associations with power, violence, and marginalised communities. Reviewers praise its intelligent prose and insightful connections between disparate cultural contexts, noting that Kinney adeptly illustrates how hoods reflect societal power dynamics. This work is part of the Object Lessons series, and Kinney's exploration prompts a re-evaluation of hoods as symbols with profound historical and social significance.
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ISBN: 9781501307409
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 10 March 2016
Country: United States
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Illustration: 3 b/w illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 120.0mm
Height: 164.0mm
Weight: 160g
Pages: 176
About the Author
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.
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