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Hood
Hood | Alison Kinney
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. 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. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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Hood | Alison Kinney
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I like this series, but this one was not as engaging as some of the others. I thought the exploration of ideas and concepts was interesting, but it felt like the author tried to make the writing more academic than was necessary. It could just be a reader issue, but I had to go back several times and reread to understand her points.

Slynn71 Im having a hard time getting into it. The subject is fascinating but atm the first chapter is killin me. Pun intended. 8y
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