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From V&A curators Rosalind McKever and Claire Wilcox, Fashioning Masculinities is a visually stunning exploration of how fashion shapes ideas of masculinity. At a moment...

In Foremother Love, Dana Murphy examines the importance of eighteenth-century poet Phillis Wheatley as a foundational figure for Black feminist criticism.   Murphy establishes Phillis (as...

The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a slave girl turned published poet   In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship,...

Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art...

This exploration of Black dandy fashion and its representation in art and literature highlights the vibrant, complicated legacy of a recognizable yet constantly shifting style,...

The first translation and publication of sixteen submissions to the notorious eighteenth-century Bordeaux essay contest on the cause of black skin--an indispensable chronicle of the...