Fashion has been used as a tool by people in the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora to build national and regional identities and also as a means of resistance. These five sources delineate historical and contemporary moments in which dress and design have been...
This week’s roundup explores the complex relationship between fashion, race, the body, and gender (both identity and expression). These five sources help chart the long history of trans and cisgender people alike, using the knowledges inherent to fashion to...
This week’s reading list examines the visual culture of Blackness as it is expressed through the culture of music and fashion. This includes both the relationship between fashion, music, and identity, as well as the generative synergy that often occurs between...
The relationship between Blackness and luxury fashion, with its long history of exploitation, erasure, and appropriation, is complex and fraught.
While race and ethnicity are subjectivities that deeply shape our individual and collective experiences, it must be said that neither are as inherent or “natural” as is suggested by media, pseudoscience, or institutional exercises like government censuses.
This week’s reading list highlights five sources from our Library that explore the complex relationship between textiles and the cultures of the African diaspora.
While some mainstream histories attribute dandyism to white men in the 19th century, there is a much broader reality of Black people (including women and femmes) who have also employed this philosophy and lifestyle of dress, thought, and comportment in their own lives, both historically and within the contemporary moment.
Fashion and self-fashioning have remained important and highly visible aspects of organizing and movements of resistance.
