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Hood
Paperback Edition: 1
We all wear hoods: the Grim Reaper, Red Riding Hood, torturers, executioners and the executed, athletes, laborers, 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.
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Pages : 163
Publisher : Bloomsbury Professional
Publication date : 2016-03-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Art/design/film