Slaves to fashion : black dandyism and the styling of black diasporic identity / Monica L. Miller.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, Monica L., 1970-
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
African American men > Clothing > History.
African American men > Race identity.
Fashion > United States.
Dandyism > United States.
Clothing and dress > United States.
Physical Description:xiii, 390 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Stylin' out
  • Mungo Macaroni : the slavish swell
  • Crimes of fashion : dressing the part from slavery to freedom
  • W.E.B. du Bois's "different" diasporic race man
  • "Passing fancies" : dandyism, Harlem modernism, and the politics of visuality
  • "You look beautiful like that" : black dandyism and the visual histories of black cosmopolitanism.