Fashioning Caribbean Identity and Resistance
Fashion has been used as a tool by people in the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora to build...
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Wearing Colors in Fashion
This week’s reading list focuses on the significance of wearing colors in fashion. Just as certain...
Body Ornamentation: Tattoos
This week’s roundup provides written text and visual depictions of the way tattoos have been...
De-centering Luxury
The word “luxury” is often mentioned in relation to fashion. But, what, exactly, is...
Body Ornamentation: Tattoos
This week’s roundup provides written text and visual depictions of the way tattoos have been...
The Body Politics of Fashion and Gender
This week’s roundup explores the complex relationship between fashion, race, the body, and gender...
Fashioning Caribbean Identity and Resistance
Fashion has been used as a tool by people in the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora to build...
Body Ornamentation: Tattoos
This week’s roundup provides written text and visual depictions of the way tattoos have been...
Wearing Colors in Fashion
This week’s reading list focuses on the significance of wearing colors in fashion. Just as certain...
Decolonizing Sustainable Fashion
The necessity to create a more sustainable fashion industry has become increasingly eminent in the past decade or so.
Fashioning the Other
Fashion is an essential tool in the construction of ideas about the ‘Other.’ By...
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Fashioning Black Resistance
Fashion and self-fashioning have remained important and highly visible aspects of organizing and movements of resistance.
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Podcast Episodes Highlighting Black Fashion History
This list features dynamic conversations about Black fashion history, including interviews with Black artists, academics, and cultural commentators.
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Decolonizing Fashion
The fashion industry was — and still is — built on a colonial model of extraction and exploitation, often at the expense of the environment and human rights.
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Fashioning Black Masculinity
While gender and fashion are distinct from one another, their abilities to signify, reflect, and shape each other are significant and often important sites of cultural meaning and definition.
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Fashioning Black Femininity
While gender and fashion are distinct from one another, their abilities to signify, reflect, and shape each other are significant and often important sites of cultural meaning and definition.
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Representing Race in Colonial Latin America
Constructs of race are the result of colonial enterprises and thought. Since the Spanish and Portuguese invasion of what we now call ‘Latin America,’ class, social economy, and cultural habits became important factors to categorize social groups into different ‘races.’
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Fashion and the Body
The relationship between fashion and the body is integral to our understanding of our social and material lives.
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Black Fashion Exhibitions
The museum is an essential space within historiographical discourses because it facilitates, in part, the ways we collectively remember our pasts and the ways in which we create and curate our own histories.
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Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican Dress
Dress was a marker of identity to the peoples of Mesoamerica before the Spanish invasion. To the Aztecs, the wearing of appropriate clothing was strictly controlled by both custom and law.
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Fashioning Black Hair
Hair is an essential part of visual and cultural identity and this selection from our library explores representations of Black hair throughout art, fashion, and history.
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Black Fashion in Documentary Film
This list explores moments of Black fashion history as they appear in documentary film.
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A Short Introduction to Cultural Appropriation II
The ongoing debate about cultural appropriation is more relevant now than ever. Not infrequently, the fashion system exploits the cultural elements of racialized groups of people under the pretense of an innocent “inspiration.”
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