Informationen zum Autor Monica L. Miller is Assistant Professor of English at Barnard College. Klappentext "Revising and augmenting scholarship on minstrelsy, literary representations of blackness, and black sartorial aesthetics and visual culture, "Slaves to Fashion" is an impressive and meticulously researched treatise on the history of the black dandy. It fills a gap in the scholarship on the cultural politics of black self-fashioning."--E. Patrick Johnson, author of "Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity" Zusammenfassung A work on the history of black dandyism. It examines the pivotal role that style has played in the politics and aesthetics of African diasporic identity formation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Autorentext

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

Klappentext

"Revising and augmenting scholarship on minstrelsy, literary representations of blackness, and black sartorial aesthetics and visual culture, "Slaves to Fashion" is an impressive and meticulously researched treatise on the history of the black dandy. It fills a gap in the scholarship on the cultural politics of black self-fashioning."--E. Patrick Johnson, author of "Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity"

Zusammenfassung
A work on the history of black dandyism. It examines the pivotal role that style has played in the politics and aesthetics of African diasporic identity formation.

Inhalt

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