September 27th, 2010

books dreads by alice walker

Dread Talk


Dreads


Dreads


$11.87


Dreadlocks are a modern phenomenon with roots reaching as far back as the fifth century. According to ancient Hindu beliefs, dreads signified a singleminded pursuit of the spiritual. Devotion to God displaced vanity, and hair was left to its own devices.Dreads captures this organic explosion of hair in all its beautiful, subversive glory. One hundred duotone portraits present dread-heads from arou…

Page From A Tennessee Journal


Page From A Tennessee Journal


$13.67


It is 1913, shortly before the start of the First World War, and Annalaura is alone again. Her gambling, womanizing husband has left the plot they sharecrop in rural Tennessee — why or for how long she does not know. Without food or money and with her future tied to the fate of the season’s tobacco crop, Annalaura struggles to raise her four children. When help comes in the form of an amorous …

Dreads [DREADS -OS]


Dreads [DREADS -OS]


$18.68