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ARTD 3136: African Fashion, Textiles and Personal Adornment: Index, Bibliography, and Attributions

An OER for Prof. Chris Richards of Brooklyn College

Bibliography of Works

Adepitan, Ade, Andy Wells, Bullfrog Films, Firecrest Films, and British Broadcasting Corporation. The secret life of your clothes, 2016. http://docuseek2.com/bf-slife.
Afoláyan, Michael Oládèjo, and Betty Wass. “Yoruba Headties.” In Crowning Achievements : African Arts of Dressing the Head / Mary Jo Arnoldi and Christine Mullen Kreamer; with Contributions by Michael Oládèjo Afoláyan ... [et Al.]., 138–45, 1995.
Arnoldi, Mary Jo. “Crowning Glories: The Head and Hair.” In Crowning Achievements : African Arts of Dressing the Head / Mary Jo Arnoldi and Christine Mullen Kreamer; with Contributions by Michael Oládèjo Afoláyan ... [et Al.]., 52–67. Los Angeles, Calif.: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995.
Bastian, Misty L. “Female ‘alhajis’ and Entrepreneurial Fashions: Flexible Identities in Southeastern Nigerian Clothing Practice.” In Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa / Ed. by Hildi Hendrickson. -, 97–132. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996.
———. “The Naked and the Nude: Historically Multiple Meanings of ‘Oto’ (Undress) in Southeastern Nigeria.” In Dirt, Undress, and Difference : Critical Perspectives on the Body’s Surface. Indiana University Press, 2005.
Brett-Smith, Sarah C. “Leaves and Mud.” In The Silence of the Women: Bamana Mud Cloths, 2014.
Comaroff, Jean. “The Empire’s Old Clothes : Fashioning the Colonial Subject.” In Cross-Cultural Consumption. Global Markets, Local Realities. London; New York: Routledge, 1996. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=83057.
Elands, Helen. “Dutch Wax Classics: The Designs Introduced by Ebenezer Brown Fleming circa 1890-1912 and Their Legacy.” In African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style., 2017.
Gillow, John. African Textiles. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2003.
Giuntini, Christine, Alisa LaGamma, and N.Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York. “West African Cloth: Techniques and Traditions.” In The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design without End, 25–35. New York; New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press, 2008. http://books.google.com/books?id=PftJAQAAIAAJ.
Gott, Edith Suzanne. “The Ghanaian Kaba : Fashion That Sustains Culture.” In Contemporary African Fashion, 10–27, 223. Bloomington [Ind.]: Indiana University Press, 2010. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10481742.
Gott, Suzanne. “Asante Hightimers and the Fashionable Display of Women’s Wealth in Contemporary Ghana.” Fashion Theory, no. 2 (2009): 141.
Grosfilley, Anne. African Wax Print Textiles. Translated by Rachel French. Munich: Prestel, 2018
Hansen, Karen Tranberg. African Dress: Fashion, Agency, Performance. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=1334386.
———. “Dressing Dangerously: Miniskirts, Gender Relations, and Sexuality in Zambia.” In Fashioning Africa: Power and the Politics of Dress., 166–85. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.
Hendrickson, Hildi. Introduction in Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa., 1-16. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.
Hobbs, Robert. “Yinka Shonibare MBE : The Politics of Representation.” In Yinka Shonibare MBE, 2014.
Jansen, M. Angela. “Moroccan Fashion as Tradition, Three Generations of Moroccan Fashion Designers.” In Moroccan Fashion: Design, Culture and Tradition, 2014.
Jennings, Helen. New African Fashion. Munich: Prestel, 2012.
Junger, Karin, and Wessel van de Hammen. Mama-Benz & the taste of money. Hilversum: Ikon, 2002.
Junger, Karin, National Film Board of Denmark, Ryninks Films (Firm), IKON, Radio Nederland Television, and inc Filmakers Library. Mama Benz and the taste of money. Filmakers Library, 2003. http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?VASC;1641539.
Kreamer, Christine Mullen. “Practical Beauty : Headgear for Daily Wear ; Spectacular Hats for Special Occasions.” In Crowning Achievements: African Arts of Dressing the Head, 98–125. Los Angeles, Calif.: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995.
Miescher, Suzanne. “‘Bringing Fabrics to Life’: Akosombo Textiles Limited of Ghana.” In African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style., 2017.
Mustafa, Hudita Nura. “Intersecting Creativities: Oumou Sy’s Costumes in the Dakar Landscape.” In Contemporary African Fashion., 122–37, 2010
Nettleton, Anitra. “19th-Century Beaded Histories : Tracing the Inventions of Tradition through the Photographic Image.” In Beadwork, Art and the Body: Dilo Ts̆e Dintshi = Abundance., Chapter 2, page 8–27, 144–49. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2015.
Pool, Hannah. “Johannesburg.” In Fashion Cities: Africa. Brighton Museum & Art Gallery (Brighton). Bristol; Chicago: Intellect, 2016.
Rabine, Leslie W. “Fashionable Photography in Mid-Twentieth-Century Senegal.” jour dres bod cul Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture 14, no. 3 (2010): 305–30.
Richards, Christopher. “‘A New Chapter for Xhosa Beadwork’: Laduma Ngxokola and His Promotion of a Xhosa Heritage.” In Beadwork, Art and the Body: Dilo Ts̆e Dintshi = Abundance., 108–25. Smithsonian Libraries, 2015.
———. “‘The Models for Africa’: Accra’s Independence-Era Fashion Culture and the Creations of Chez Julie.” African Arts. 49 (2016): 8–21.
Ross, Doran H. Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity ; [Catalog Accompanying an Exhibition of the Same Name Held at the Newark Museum and the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1998.
Rovine, Victoria. “Fashionable Traditions: The Globalization of an African Textile.” In Fashioning Africa: Power and the Politics of Dress., 189–211, 2004.
———. “Ghana Boys in Mali: Fashion, Youth, and Travel.” In African Dress: Fashion, Agency, Performance., 124–37, 2013.
———. “Indigenous Fashion: Embroidery and Innovation in Mali.” In African Fashion, Global Style: Histories, Innovations, and Ideas You Can Wear. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015.
———. “Nubia in Paris : African Style in French Fashion.” In African Fashion, Global Style: Histories, Innovations, and Ideas You Can Wear. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015.
———. “‘Tourist Market Bogolan’ and ‘Culture Through Clothing.’” In Bogolan: Shaping Culture through Cloth in Contemporary Mali. Bloomington, Ind.; Chesham: Indiana University Press ; Combined Academic [distributor, 2009.
———. “Viewing Africa through Fashion.” Fashion Theory. 13 (2009): 133–39.
Smuts, Helene, and Petrus Khobongo Mahlangu. “‘Looking Deeply on the Way My Mother Does Her Beadwork’: Conversations with Three Foremost Ndebele Beadwork Artists.” In Beadwork, Art and the Body: Dilo Ts̆e Dintshi = Abundance., 126–43. Smithsonian Libraries. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2015.
Sylvanus, Nina. “The Fabric of Africanity.” Anthropological Theory 7, no. 2 (2007): 201–16.