Re-Imagining African Diasporic Fashion
Fashion is watching divine spirits dressed in serene testimonials. Backstage is where these...
Category: Black Identity & African Diaspora
Refashioning Traditional Wear
This week’s roundup features contemporary narratives of traditional wear around the world....
Globalizing Muslim Fashion
This week’s reading list takes a global perspective on approaching Muslim fashion. From the...
Fashioning Caribbean Identity and Resistance
Fashion has been used as a tool by people in the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora to build...
Fashioning the Other
Fashion is an essential tool in the construction of ideas about the ‘Other.’ By...
The Body Politics of Fashion and Gender
This week’s roundup explores the complex relationship between fashion, race, the body, and gender...
The Visual Culture of Black Fashion and Music
This week’s reading list examines the visual culture of Blackness as it is expressed through the...
Blackness & Luxury Fashion
The relationship between Blackness and luxury fashion, with its long history of exploitation, erasure, and appropriation, is complex and fraught.
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.
Textiles from Around the World
Textiles are an essential part of fashion, even though they are often studied separately from dress styles themselves.
