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Clothing and Fashion in Southern History /

"The first volume to closely study the history of clothing and its relationship to work, power, and identity in the South"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Walton, Becca (Editor ), Ownby, Ted (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.