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Enslaved Peoples In Fashion History with Jonathan Michael Square

A supplemental event to Guernica's "Clothes, Interrupted" special issue. For this event, contributor Jonathan Michael Square will share his research on the self-fashioning of free and enslaved women of color, arguing for an expanded understanding of fashion history that includes the contributions of people of African descent. Using the example of the tignon, a headscarf worn by black women in southern Louisiana, he will illuminate how Afro-Diasporic dress practices continue to influence the way many dress today.