Podcast Episodes Highlighting Black Fashion History
This list features dynamic conversations about Black fashion history, including interviews with Black artists, academics, and cultural commentators.
Category: Reading Lists
Reading Lists
- Black Identity & African Diaspora
- Latin America
- Asian Identity
- Concepts & Theory
- Visual Culture & The Arts
- Gender & Sexuality
- Ethno Religious Identity
- Indigenous Identity
- Race, Ethnicity & Colonialism
- Sustainability
- Arab Identity
Latin American Fashion Exhibitions
Both fashion exhibitions and Latin American fashion have received increasing attention around the globe in recent decades.
Fashion in China Through the Centuries
China has developed a unique fashion system since at least a millennium. In Tang dynasty China (618–907), for example, changes in dress and shifts in the perceptions of dress reveal the emergence of a fashion system.
Fashion & Politics
Fashion is inherently political. Throughout history, it has functioned as an expression of nationalism, activism, religion, and ideologies.
Podcast Episodes Highlighting Black Fashion History
This list features dynamic conversations about Black fashion history, including interviews with Black artists, academics, and cultural commentators.
Fashioning Black Queer Genders
Fashion and ‘fashioning’ remain crucial parts of gender expression and the performance of identity. Fashion’s potential to signify and convey identity in material form is comparable to the power of words to convey meaning in linguistic form.
The Zay Initiative’s Introduction to Arab Dress
The Zay Initiative aims to promote an understanding of regional culture, and preserve, collect, document, and conserve Arab historic dress and adornment, and their stories.
Contemporary Native Fashion
Native American design is an important force in contemporary fashion. Traditional Native American art forms have been subject of inspiration and, at times, plagiarism and cultural appropriation for mainstream fashion.
Fashion & Politics
Fashion is inherently political. Throughout history, it has functioned as an expression of nationalism, activism, religion, and ideologies.
Intersectional Sustainability
This week, Research Assistant Adriana Hill is guiding us through what she has found on Intersectional Sustainability and its prevalence in fashion:
The Zay Initiative’s Introduction to Arab Dress
The Zay Initiative aims to promote an understanding of regional culture, and preserve, collect, document, and conserve Arab historic dress and adornment, and their stories.
More Reading Lists:
Spotlight on African Fashion
This week’s roundup centers fashion on the African continent. The canon of fashion history is one that often excludes non-white cultural producers who exist outside of Europe and the United States.
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Memories of Resistance
Resistance comes in various forms, and dress is one of them.
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A Short Introduction to Cultural Appropriation I
Perhaps the most contentious topic in fashion over the past ten years, cultural appropriation touches on a pressure point for many, as we grapple with the question, “who owns culture?”
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Black Style Matters
When it comes to the Black, lived experience, there is much to be said about the way dress and hairstyling is critical in making a statement, building community and refining one’s self-definition.
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A Short Introduction to Colorism
When it comes to the nuances of racism and discrimination, we must also talk about the insidious nature of ‘race’ in terms of skin color and shade.
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