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Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. Chapter One: “That very, very simple thing about the hood” The Grim Reaper. The executioner and the executed.Chapter Two: The Struggle Against Terrorism Two Murals. The Ku Klux Klan. A Timeline of Hooding. Abu Ghraib.Chapter Three: Little Red Riding Hoodlum Our bodies, our hoods. The Seattle WTO protests. Black Blocs and pink blocs.Chapter Four: “It's What's Under the Hood That Counts” Everybody's hoods. Black Lives Matter.AcknowledgementsList of Illustrations Notes “Provocative and highly informative, Alison Kinney's Hood considers this seemingly neutral garment accessory and reveals it to be vexed by a long history of violence, from the Grim Reaper to the KKK and beyond-a history we would do well to address, and redress. Readers will never see hoods the same way again.” – Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking “From executioners in modern-day Florida, to the Ku Klux Klan, to 'hug a hoodie' Cameron – this scholarly study explores a complicated cultural history ...

[Kinney's] argument about the connection between hoods and power is a strong one ... The book is at its best on the connections between hoods and marginalised communities.” – “Alison Kinney's Hood is short but ambitious, considering not just the hoodie as a marker of social exclusion both willed and unwilled, the preferred mufti of rappers and death-metallists, but also the wider cultural implications of covering or cowling the head ... This provocative [book] ... raises more questions than it seeks to answer - but that's fitting when the issues it discusses are still so urgent and so open.” –north face half dome pullover hoodie “In spry and intelligent prose, Alison Kinney tours the many uses of the hood in human culture, exploring seemingly unconnected byways and guiding the reader through some surprising connections. buy mma gear bangkok

The ubiquitous hood, she shows, is an artifact of human relationships with power, the state, and one another. By the end of my time with Hood, I had laughed out loud, sighed in exasperation, and felt by turns both furious and proud.” – Rebecca Onion, history writer for Slate Magazine “Kinney's book Hood, part of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series, explores how one piece of clothing has the power to threaten, terrify, comfort, as well as cover pizza bloat. lethal bizzle hoodiesA writer whose work has appeared at Harper's Magazine, The Paris Review Daily, The Atlantic, Lapham's Quarterly, and The New York Times, her first book is about ambiguity of the hood through time, and how 'this ambiguity tends to serve the powerful, at the expense of the powerless, regardless of who's wearing the hoods.'” –hoodie rotten tomatoes

“This slim, energetic book ricochets between medieval executioners, Abu Ghraib, anarchist protestors, the Ku Klux Klan, Trayvon Martin, and the Grim Reaper in search of a Unified Theory of Hoods. Surprisingly, it ends up finding one, and unearths all manner of fascinating hood-related facts along the way.” – “Hoods infiltrate mass media, political discourse, supermarkets, school uniforms, New York Fashion Week, our homes-but it is easy to overlook them, or dismiss their ubiquity as apolitical and inconsequential, as a result. twitch tv hoodie purpleAlison Kinney's Hood is centrally constituted around reaffirming this inherent ordinariness, while magnifying the extraordinary contexts hoods so often become wrapped up in. korda hoodiesHood is published as an installment of the ongoing Object Lessons series, which prompts writers and readers alike to focus on the smaller objects that constitute a life, engage in imaginative intellectual play with them, subject them to inscrutable human curiosity, and utilize them as mirrors that reflect back upon a very human world.” –  Lauren Stroh,nn07 hoodie

“[Hood] is part of a series entitled Object Lessons, which looks at 'the hidden lives of ordinary things' and which are all utterly 'Fridge Brilliant' (defined by TV Tropes as an experience of sudden revelation, like the light coming on when you open a refrigerator door). [I]n many ways Hood isn't about hoods at all. It's about what – and who – is under the hood. It's about the hooding, the hooders and the hoodees ... [and] identity, power and politics. Kinney's book certainly reveals the complex history of the hood in America.” – London Review of Books “Alison Kinney's Hood ... deftly maps the historical facts behind hooding (and, oh my, there are so many hoods!) and also untangles our past to demonstrate how people in positions of power frequently subvert ideas of right and wrong, normal and suspicious, law-abiding and criminal in order to maintain and even strengthen their power. The Object Lesson series, published by Bloomsbury Press, covers a wide range of topics: driver's license, drone, phone booth, hotel, cigarette lighter, bread, eye chart, etc.

And like all of them, Kinney's book takes us on a long historical journey-religious hoods, famous hooded characters, costume and fashion hoods, hoods that look cool, hoods that keep us warm, brand-name hoods, hijabs, burkinis, Masonic hoods, KKK hoods. Hood, ultimately, is the map that shows us how we arrived at our racial troubles today; it's a historical lesson that calls us to action. By reading it, we participate in the movement against racial hatred.” –  Leslie Jill Patterson, Texas Tech University, USA, “Part of the publisher Bloomsbury's 'Object Lessons' series, Hood contains a definite chill as Kinney tracks the history and significance of the garment through the 15th century to the present. Kinney tells a riveting story of the origins of the Ku Klux Klan's hooded uniforms. This examination is part of the strength of the Object Lessons series. (Other titles look at Silence, Glass, and Dust.) Kinney, a writer in Brooklyn, New York, knits seemingly disparate subjects - burkinis and gentrification, for example - together in such a way that the connection is instantly appreciated – and she does her work in fewer than 200 pages.