Fashioning African Textiles
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.
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Moda latinoamericana
Esta lista de lectura reúne algunos ejemplos del trabajo de estudios de moda que se ha gestado desde latinoamérica, creado originalmente en español y portugués. // This reading list features the work of Latin American fashion scholars in both Spanish and Portuguese, from the study of Black fashion as cultural heritage in Brazil, to an examination of the relationship between fashion and modernity in the Americas.
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.
The Politics of Plastic Surgery
Plastic surgery participates in processes that define collective ideals about beauty, gender, and racial identity.
Fashioning African Textiles
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.
Fashioning Black Dandyism
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.
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.
Moda latinoamericana
Esta lista de lectura reúne algunos ejemplos del trabajo de estudios de moda que se ha gestado desde latinoamérica, creado originalmente en español y portugués. // This reading list features the work of Latin American fashion scholars in both Spanish and Portuguese, from the study of Black fashion as cultural heritage in Brazil, to an examination of the relationship between fashion and modernity in the Americas.
Moda latinoamericana
Esta lista de lectura reúne algunos ejemplos del trabajo de estudios de moda que se ha gestado desde latinoamérica, creado originalmente en español y portugués. // This reading list features the work of Latin American fashion scholars in both Spanish and Portuguese, from the study of Black fashion as cultural heritage in Brazil, to an examination of the relationship between fashion and modernity in the Americas.
Intersectional Sustainability
This week, Research Assistant Adriana Hill is guiding us through what she has found on Intersectional Sustainability and its prevalence in fashion:
Textiles from Around the World
Textiles are an essential part of fashion, even though they are often studied separately from dress styles themselves.
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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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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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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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Fashion & Colonialism
Each of these sources analyzes the enduring legacies of European colonialism within the fashion system and the ways in which colonial knowledges have continued to influence hegemonic ideals of beauty, culture, and identity.
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Youth Culture & the Zoot Suit
At the face of growing police violence and discrimination in the 1940s, the zoot suit became a symbol of resistance among Mexican Americans and African Americans.
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Fashion & Enslavement
This week, Research Assistant Kai Marcel is guiding us through what they have found on ‘Fashion and Enslavement’:
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Decolonizing Beauty Standards
This list comprises sources that delineate and decolonize established beauty norms that govern how we as a society understand, engage with, and value or devalue individuals based on how beautiful they are perceived to be.
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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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