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Dress, Gender and Cultural Change - Asian American and African American Rites of Passage (Hardcover)
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Dress, Gender and Cultural Change - Asian American and African American Rites of Passage (Hardcover)
Series: Dress, Body, Culture
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While African American dress has long been noted as having a
distinctive edge, many people may not know that debutante balls - a
relatively recent phenomenon within African American communities -
feature young women and men dressed, respectively, in conventional
symbols of female purity and male hegemony, and conforming to
gender stereotypes that have tended to characterize such events
traditionally. Within the Hmong American community, mothers and
aunts of teenagers use bangles, lace and traditional handwork
techniques to create dazzling displays reflecting the gender and
ethnicity of their sons and daughters, nieces and nephews, as they
participate in an annual courtship ritual. This book examines these
events to show how dress is used to transform gender construction
and create positive images of African American and Hmong American
youth. Coming-of-age rituals serve as arenas of cultural revision
and change. For each of these communities, the choice of dress
represents cultural affirmation. This author shows that within the
homogenizing context of American society, dress serves as a site
for the continual renegotiation of identity - gendered, ethnic and
otherwise.
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