Stylin'
African-American Expressive Culture, from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit
Two Australian historians (brothers, incidentally) from the University of Sydney examine the ways in which black style has been interpreted and the political and social implications it has carried from slavery to WW II. African-American history has been written on the black body in a variety of ways, many of them cruel and inhuman. Slaves were branded, had their ears cropped, were whipped mercilessly. A slave's body was not his/her own property in the most literal sense, but as the Whites observe in this engrossing volume, there were many ways in which they could assert some small measure of independence. Focusing on such variegated indicator…
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Weitere Autoren: White, Graham
- ISBN: 978-0-8014-8283-0
- EAN: 9780801482830
- Produktnummer: 19768909
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H15.6 cm x B23.3 cm x D3.0 cm 502 g
- Abbildungen: 42 Halftones, color; 14 Figures
- Gewicht: 502
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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