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Slaves to fashion : black dandyism and the styling of black diasporic identity / Monica L. Miller.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.Description: xiii, 390 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780822345855 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780822346036 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.38/896073 22
LOC classification:
  • E185.89.F37 M55 2009
Contents:
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.
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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.

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