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ENGL 579

Gender Studies

3 units

Fall 2026 · ENGL 579 LEC A1: Gender Studies - Fashioning Black Joy: Dandyism as Decolonial Practice; M. Bucknor · Course preview

Topics

  • Black dandyism
  • Masculinity
  • Fashion and decolonial practice

Readings

  • Benjamin, Jody. The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700–1850.
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  • Buckridge, Steeve O. The Language of Dress: Resistance and Accommodation in Jamaica, 1760–1890.
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  • Cosgrove, Stuart. “The Zoot-Suit and Style Warfare.”
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  • Ellis, Nadia. “Out and Bad: Toward a Queer Performance Hermeneutic in Jamaican Dancehall.”
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  • hooks, bell. We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity.
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  • Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman. Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Anti-black World.
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  • Lewis, Shantrelle P. Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style.
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  • Majors, Richard, and Janet Mancini Billson. Cool Pose: The Dilemma of Black Manhood in America.
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  • Mbembe, Achille. “Afropolitanism.”
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  • McMillan, Michael. “Saga Bwoys and Rude Bwoys: Migration, Grooming, and Dandyism.”
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  • Miller, Monica L. Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity. Central text.
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  • Neptune, Harvey R. “From Barefooted Men to Saga Boys: Gender, Class, and Clothes in Occupied Trinidad.”
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  • Nwafor, Okechuckwu. Aso Ebi: Dress, Fashion, Visual Culture, and Urban Cosmopolitanism in West Africa.
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  • Wynter, Sylvia. “Rethinking ‘Aesthetics’: Notes Towards a Deciphering Practice.”
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