Creating African Fashion Histories
Akou, Heather M. / Mcgregor, Joann / Stylianou, Nicola![Creating African Fashion Histories](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/359/35964622/CHSBZCOP0335964622.jpg)
Creating African Fashion Histories examines the stark disjuncture between African self-fashioning and museum practices. Conventionally, African clothing, textiles, and body adornments were classified by museums as examples of trade goods, art, and as ethnographic-never as "fashion." Counterposing the dynamism of African fashion with museums' historic holdings thus provides a unique way of confronting ways in which coloniality persists in knowl...