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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: White, Shane. Stylin' Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1998 (OCoLC)605486772 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Shane White; Graham J White |
| ISBN: | 0801431794 9780801431791 0801482836 9780801482830 |
| OCLC Number: | 37721327 |
| Description: | xv, 301 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Looking mighty sprucy -- 2. Done up in the tastiest manner -- 3. I'd rather dance den eat -- 4. Dandies and dandizettes -- 5. Swingin' like crazy -- 6. Strolling, jooking, and fixy clothes -- 7. The long-veiled beauty of our own world -- 8. The stroll -- Epilogue : suit men from suit land -- Notes -- Index. |
| Responsibility: | Shane White and Graham White. |
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Abstract:
An exploration of African-American style from its African origins to the 1940s, looking at the ways in which African-American men and women have expressed themselves through clothing, hairstyles, gestures, dance, and other forms of bodily display.
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- African Americans -- Social life and customs.
- African Americans -- Clothing -- History.
- Hairstyles -- United States -- History.
- Body image -- United States -- History.
- Noirs américains -- Mœurs et coutumes.
- Noirs américains -- Costume -- Histoire.
- Coiffures (Cheveux) -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
- Image du corps -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
- Negers.
- Populaire cultuur.
- Lichaamscultuur.
- Kleidung
- Kultur
- Geschichte Anfänge-1940.
- Körpersprache
- USA
- Schwarze
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