From childhood to womanhood, Black women have innovated distinct styles of hair and clothing, made musicians like The Jackson Five, Prince and Beyoncé household names[...]
The interest and conversation surrounding the behavior, socioeconomic patterns and consumer participation of Black women and girls is long overdue. Since the 1960s, Black women have had an undeniable hand in shaping post-modern American popular culture.
Her books “Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed U.S. Pop Culture” published by University of Illinois Press in April 2022 and “The Black Girlhood Studies Collection” published by Canadian Scholars in 2019, are invaluable explorations of the impacts, theory and existential experiences of Black women and girls.
Buy Black “reveals what attitudes inform a contemporary Black sensibility based in representation and consumerism. It also traces the parameters of Black symbolic power, mapping the sites where intraracial ideals of blackness, womanhood, beauty, play, and sexuality meet and mix in consumer and popular culture.”
Halliday’s courageous and informative concentrations will help shape a new understanding of underrepresented Black women and girls. She has much to offer as a powerful thinker and scholar.
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