Slaves to fashion : black dandyism and the styling of black diasporic identity /

Miller, Monica L., 1970-

Slaves to fashion : black dandyism and the styling of black diasporic identity / Monica L. Miller. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2009. - xiii, 390 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-370) and index.

Stylin' out -- Mungo Macaroni : the slavish swell -- Crimes of fashion : dressing the part from slavery to freedom -- W. E. B. du Bois's "different" diasporic race man -- "Passing fancies" : dandyism, harlem modernism, and the politics of visuality -- "You look beautiful like that" : black dandyism and the visual histories of black cosmopolitanism.

9780822345855 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822346036 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2009013116


African American men--Clothing--History.
African American men--Race identity.
Fashion--United States.
Dandyism--United States.
Clothing and dress--United States.

E185.89.F37 / M55 2009

305.38/896073