Slaves to fashion : black dandyism and the styling of black diasporic identity / Monica L. Miller.

Author/creator Miller, Monica L., 1970-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2009.
Descriptionxiii, 390 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [347]-370) and index.
LCCN 2009013116
ISBN9780822345855 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822345854 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822346036 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0822346036 (pbk. : alk. paper)