The Resource Hot comb, Ebony Flowers
Hot comb, Ebony Flowers
Resource Information
The item Hot comb, Ebony Flowers represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Hot comb, Ebony Flowers represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 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. "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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 180 pages
- Contents
-
- Hot comb
- Lady on the train
- Big Ma
- Fieldwork follies
- My lil siser Lena
- Spaniard
- Sisters & daughters
- Last Angolan Saturday
- Isbn
- 9781770463486
- Label
- Hot comb
- Title
- Hot comb
- Statement of responsibility
- Ebony Flowers
- Subject
-
- Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Flowers, Ebony -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Graphic novels
- Hair -- Social aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Hairdressing of Blacks -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Salons -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Women, Black -- Race identity -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Women, Black -- Social life and customs -- Comic books, strips, etc
- African Americans -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Beauty shops -- Fiction | Comic books, strips, etc
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. "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
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- NLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Flowers, Ebony
- Dewey number
-
- 305.48/896
- 741.5/973
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- comics graphic novels
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Flowers, Ebony
- Hairdressing of Blacks
- Women, Black
- Women, Black
- Hair
- Beauty, Personal
- African Americans
- Salons
- Beauty shops
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Hot comb, Ebony Flowers
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Hot comb
- Lady on the train
- Big Ma
- Fieldwork follies
- My lil siser Lena
- Spaniard
- Sisters & daughters
- Last Angolan Saturday
- Control code
- 000065443044
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 180 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781770463486
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- chiefly illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1053581791
- Label
- Hot comb, Ebony Flowers
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Hot comb
- Lady on the train
- Big Ma
- Fieldwork follies
- My lil siser Lena
- Spaniard
- Sisters & daughters
- Last Angolan Saturday
- Control code
- 000065443044
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 180 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781770463486
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- chiefly illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1053581791
Subject
- Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Flowers, Ebony -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Graphic novels
- Hair -- Social aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Hairdressing of Blacks -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Salons -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Women, Black -- Race identity -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Women, Black -- Social life and customs -- Comic books, strips, etc
- African Americans -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Beauty shops -- Fiction | Comic books, strips, etc
Genre
Included in
- trueAlternative Comics
- trueBlack Creators in Comics
- trueIgnatz Awards: Outstanding Graphic Novel
- trueOwn Voices Graphic Novels
- trueYALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens: 2020
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