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Clothing and fashion in southern history /

"Contributions by Grace Elizabeth Hale, Katie Knowles, Ted Ownby, Jonathan Prude, William Sturkey, Susannah Walker, Becca Walton, and Sarah Jones Weicksel Fashion studies have long centered on the art and preservation of finely rendered garments of the upper class, and archival resources used i...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ownby, Ted (Editor ), Walton, Becca (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Where should we begin? / Ted Ownby and Becca Walton
  • Patches of resistance on the badges of enslavement: enslaved southerners, Negro cloth, and fashionability in the cotton South / Katie Knowles
  • Confederate cultures of military clothing production / Sarah Jones Weicksel
  • WPA sewing projects: a case study in southern encounters with the New Deal welfare state / Susannah Walker
  • "Thinking of you every minute (and every stitch)": sewing, clothing, and identity at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, 1950-1969 / Becca Walton
  • The Mississippi Poor People's Corporation: clothing manufacture and consumer capitalism in defense of Black voting rights, 1965-1974 / William Sturkey
  • The dress makes the band: used clothes, drag acts, and bohemians in the Athens, Georgia music scene / Grace Elizabeth Hale
  • Afterword / Jonathan Prude.