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Slaves to Fashion : Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity /
Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art worlds of London and New York. It is populated by sartorial impresarios such as Julius Soubise, a freed slave who sometimes wore...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2009]
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| Colección: | e-Duke books scholarly collection : 33
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Stylin' Out
- Chapter One. Mungo Macaroni: The Slavish Swell
- Chapter Two. Crimes of Fashion: Dressing the Part from Slavery to Freedom
- Chapter Three. W. E. B. Du Bois's "Different" Diasporic Race Man
- Chapter Four. "Passing Fancies": Dandyism, Harlem Modernism, and the Politics of Visuality
- Chapter Five. "You Look Beautiful Like That": Black Dandyism and Visual Histories of Black Cosmopolitanism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index