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

by Shane White and Graham White

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801431794
• ISBN13: 9780801431791
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher