Description: Through close readings of slave narratives, scrapbooks, travel illustration, documentary film and photography, as well as collage, craft, and sculpture, Jasmine Nichole Cobb explores Black hair as a visual material through which to reimagine the sensual experience of Blackness.
Review Quotes: "This book is important for anyone interested in symbolism and Black hair (primarily in the American context) with transferability to wider audiences interested in the visual and cultural production of Black bodies through hair practice. Above all, New Growth reminds us, hair is not just an aesthetic; it is form, materiality, symbol, performance and embodied racial construction."--Sweta Rajan-Rankin "Ethnic and Racial Studies"