Stylin’: African-American Expressive Culture, from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit

Shane White, Graham White

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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