Introduction to Black (Fashion) Studies Syllabus

The following course seeks to investigate and analyze the language, rhetoric, history, and impact of Black culture on the fashion industry today. In doing so, we will utilize contemporary and historical conversations around race, gender, sexuality, and class in order to interrogate and analyze key concepts, moments, styles, and trends of the fashion industry. By […]

Fashioning Desire, Desiring Fashion Winter 2021

Syllabus for hypothetical reading group of Winter 2021. Week 1-2: Fashion and Psychoanalysis Rikky Byrd, “On the ‘Black Designer’” Week 3-4: The Subject of Fashion Week 4-5: The Sex Which is Not Uniform Francisco J. Galarte, “The Crowns of Stuzo Clothing” Eva Hayward, “Don’t Exist” Week 6-7: The Libidinal Economy of Decadence David Marriott, […]

The Anti-Fashion(ing) of Desire: Readings I, II & III

Starting 2021 after the Fall Semester, I have to/want to start reading some more of the books on my PhD Exam Reading List. So I created a reading syllabus out of some of the books I’ll be reading/having to read under the topic of “The Anti-Fashion(ing) of Desire.” The majority of the reading is psychoanalytic […]

F A S H I O N

I am also trying to think carefully about the ways that signifiers of Black femininity gesture toward an excess that is not a subjectivity or desire or a liberating promise we can know in advance but a virtuality that is indeterminate and without guarantees.[1] – Zakiyyah Jackson % We fear the story that aesthetics […]