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