Clothes are never just clothes. Instead, argues University of Delaware professor Tanisha C. Ford, they’re “a powerful social skin,” a way of expressing who we are--or at least how we want to be seen. Ford sees this as particularly true for the Black community, for whom dressing has always been political, from dashikis to baggy jeans. In Dressed in Dreams, Ford discusses the history of Black style, drawing from both her scholarly work and also her personal style journey as a Black teen coming of age in the Midwest. Join Ford at CHF for a conversation about what style can do, and the ways we both are and are not what we wear.
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