How Long to Read Creating African Fashion Histories

How Long Does it Take to Read Creating African Fashion Histories?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 2 minutes to read Creating African Fashion Histories by JoAnn McGregor

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Creating African Fashion Histories examines the stark disjuncture between African self-fashioning and museum practices. Conventionally, African clothing, textiles, and body adornments were classified by museums as examples of trade goods, art, and ethnographic materials—never as "fashion." Counterposing the dynamism of African fashion with museums' historic holdings thus provides a unique way of confronting ways in which coloniality persists in knowledge and institutions today. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and curators to debate sources and approaches for constructing African fashion histories and to examine their potential for decolonizing museums, fashion studies, and global cultural history. The editors of this volume seek to answer questions such as: How can researchers use museum collections to reveal traces of past self-fashioning that are obscured by racialized forms of knowledge and institutional practice? How can archival, visual, oral, ethnographic, and online sources be deployed to capture the diversity of African sartorial pasts? How can scholars and curators decolonize the Eurocentric frames of thinking encapsulated in historic collections and current curricula? Can new collections of African fashion decolonize museum practice? From Moroccan fashion bloggers to upmarket Lagos designers, the voices in this ground-breaking collection reveal fascinating histories and geographies of circulation within and beyond the continent and its diasporic communities.

How long is Creating African Fashion Histories?

Creating African Fashion Histories by JoAnn McGregor is 361 pages long, and a total of 90,611 words.

This makes it 122% the length of the average book. It also has 111% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Creating African Fashion Histories Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 15 minutes to read Creating African Fashion Histories aloud.

What Reading Level is Creating African Fashion Histories?

Creating African Fashion Histories is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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