Stylin'
Graham White, Shane White
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
For over two centuries, in the North as well as the South, both within their own community and in the public arena, African Americans have presented their bodies in culturally distinctive ways. Shane White and Graham White consider the deeper significance of the ways in which African Americans have dressed, walked, danced, arranged their hair, and communicated in silent gestures. They ask what elaborate hair styles, bright colors, bandanas, long watch chains, and zoot suits, for example, have really meant, and discuss style itself as an expression of deep-seated cultural imperatives. Their wide-ranging exploration of black style from its African origins to the 1940s reveals a culture that differed from that of the dominant racial group in ways that were often subtle and elusive.
A wealth of black-and-white illustrations show the range of African American experience in America, emanating from all parts of the country, from cities and farms, from slave plantations, and Chicago beauty contests. White and White argue that the politics of black style is, in fact, the politics of metaphor, always ambiguous because it is always indirect. To tease out these ambiguities, they examine extensive sources, including advertisements for runaway slaves, interviews recorded with surviving ex-slaves in the 1930s, autobiographies, travelers' accounts, photographs, paintings, prints, newspapers, and images drawn from popular culture, such as the stereotypes of Jim Crow and Zip Coon.
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Kundenbewertungen
African American experience, afro-american clothing, afro-american clothing history, African American experience in America, historians of Afro-American influence, black fashions were absorbed into U.S., enslaved people culture, African American hairstyles, athletic exploits of black Americans, African American customs, Ethnic Studies, Zip Coon, African American art, contribution to black history, African American sociology, African American culture, sociocultural anthropology, African American Clothing, black fashion influences, cultural anthropology, american history, black representations in culture, cultural history, Black history, black hairstyles history, stereotypes of Jim Crow, black american history, afro-americans social life, black influence, black experience, black studies, african american culture, African American social life, exploration of black style, African American identity, black experience culture, politics of black style