TY - BOOK AU - White,Shane AU - White,Graham TI - Stylin': African-American Expressive Culture, from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit SN - 9781501718083 AV - E185.86 .W4388 1998 U1 - 305.896/073 21 PY - 2018///] CY - Ithaca, NY PB - Cornell University Press KW - African Americans KW - Clothing KW - History KW - Social life and customs KW - Body image KW - United States KW - Hairstyles KW - African-American Studies KW - Sociology & Social Science KW - U.S. History KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies KW - bisacsh KW - African American Clothing KW - African American art KW - African American culture KW - African American customs KW - African American experience in America KW - African American experience KW - African American hairstyles KW - African American identity KW - African American social life KW - African American sociology KW - Black history KW - Ethnic Studies KW - Zip Coon KW - african american culture KW - afro-american clothing history KW - afro-american clothing KW - afro-americans social life KW - american history KW - athletic exploits of black Americans KW - black american history KW - black experience culture KW - black experience KW - black fashion influences KW - black fashions were absorbed into U.S KW - black hairstyles history KW - black influence KW - black representations in culture KW - black studies KW - contribution to black history KW - cultural anthropology KW - cultural history KW - enslaved people culture KW - exploration of black style KW - historians of Afro-American influence KW - politics of black style KW - sociocultural anthropology KW - stereotypes of Jim Crow N1 - Frontmatter --; 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501718083 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501718083 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501718083/original ER -