#SchomburgSyllabus: Fashion

 

Barbara Mae Watson papers, 1929-1984, Sc MG 421, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library

 

The Fashion and Race Syllabus: An Evolving Study of Fashion and Representation (September 2016) / by Rikki Byrd,  Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, #Syllabus Web Archive Collection – Archive-It, The New York Public Library

 

Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and The Global Politics of Soul (2015) / by  Tanisha C. Ford, Sc E 15-1716, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library

 

Patrick Kelly archive, Sc MG 631, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library

 

Seersucker Social: The Black Dandy and Resistance (July 11, 2017), Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Public Programs and Exhibitions, New York Public Library

Image: Le Cake-Walk."Danse au Nouveau Cirque, LES ENFANTS NEGRES." Photo postcard of young boy and girl in dance pose, back to back, clasping hands., 1903. Photographs and Prints DivisionSchomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.

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