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GSF 390S.02: Fabricating Race - Art, Clothing, Resistance

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Here are some eBooks that you have access to; search in the online catalog for even more:

Black Designers in American Fashion by Elizabeth Way
Publication Date: 2021
Exquisite Slaves by Tamara J. Walker
Publication Date: 2017-07-03
Fashion and Fiction by Lauren S. Cardon
Publication Date: 2016-04-05
The History of Modern Fashion by Daniel James Cole; Nancy Deihl
Publication Date: 2015-09-15
Liberated Threads by Tanisha C. Ford
Publication Date: 2015-09-14
Slaves to Fashion by Monica L. Miller
Publication Date: 2009-10-08
Zoot Suit by Kathy Peiss
Publication Date: 2011-06-20
Stephen Burrows: When Fashion Danced by Daniela Morera (Editor)
Publication Date: 2013-04-16

For background material

Reference Books

Clothing Through American History by Michelle Webb Fandrich; Susan W. Greene; Ann Buermann Wass
Publication Date: 2010
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing Through World History by Jill Condra (Editor)
Publication Date: 2007
Ethnic Dress in the United States : A Cultural Encyclopedia by Annette Lynch (Editor); Mitchell D. Strauss (Editor)
Publication Date: 2014
eBook
Clothing and Fashion : American Fashion from Head to Toe by José Blanco F. (Editor); Patricia Kay Hunt-Hurst (Editor); Heather Vaughan; Mary Doering (Editor)
Publication Date: 2015
eBook
What People Wore When : A Complete Illustrated History of Costume from Ancient Times to the Nineteenth Century by Melissa Leventon
Publication Date: 2008

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