Monica L Miller

Slaves to Fashion

Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cultural and literary history of black dandyism from the 1700s to the 1960s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780822345855
• ISBN-10: 0822345854
• Artikelnr.: 26551913

Autorenporträt

Monica L. Miller is Assistant Professor of English at Barnard College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Stylin' Out 1
1. Mungo Macaroni: The Slavish Swell 27
2. Crimes of Fashion: Dressing the Part from Slavery to Freedom 77
3. W. E. B. Du Bois's "Different Diasporic Race Man 137
4. "Passing Fancies": Dandyism, Harlem Modernism, and the Politics of
Visuality 176
5. "You Look Beautiful Like That": Black Dandyism and the Histories of
Black Cosmopolitanism 219
Notes 291
Bibliography 347
Index 371