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Talking About Race Matters: Fashion, Race, Identity, and Power: Black Dandy Beginnings by Monica Miller

February 21 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Free

Talking About Race Matters: Fashion, Race, Identity, and Power: Black Dandy Beginnings by Monica Miller

This talk will explore the politics of fashion and dress for enslaved and free Black people in 18th and 19th-century Europe and America. Beginning with the phenomenon of dandified “luxury slaves” in 18th-century London, Miller will discuss the way in which the enslaved and free in America used fancy dress and fashion to both visualize freedom and critique contemporary hierarchies of race, gender, class, and sexuality. This talk is based on Miller’s book Slaves to Fashion, a cultural history of Black dandyism, which uses print culture, colonial histories, literature, and theater to tell the Black dandy’s story.

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Hablar sobre temas raciales: moda, raza, identidad y poder: Black Dandy Beginnings por Mónica Miller.

Esta charla explorará la política de la moda y la vestimenta para la gente negra libre y esclavizada en Europa y Estados Unidos de los siglos XVIII y XIX. Comenzando con el fenómeno de los dandiados ‘esclavos de lujo” en el Londres del siglo XVIII, Miller discutirá la forma en que los esclavos y gente de color libres en Estados Unidos utilizaron lo disfraces y la moda para visualizar la libertad y criticar las jerarquías contemporáneas de raza, género, clase y sexualidad. Esta charla se basa en el libro de Miller “Slaves to Fashion”, una historia cultural del dandismo negro, que utiliza la cultura popular impresa, las historias coloniales, la literatura y el teatro para contar la historia del dandy negro.

Details

Date:
February 21
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Cost:
Free
Website:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_c0bcvXf2QAy7wNigmPpI5w

Venue

Virtual via Zoom