The Language of Dress: Resistance and Accommodation in Jamaica, 1750-1890

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This book is a take a look at of ways African slave and freed women used their fashion and style of dressing as a symbol of resistance to slavery and accommodation to white culture in pre and post-emancipation society. Africans brought aspects in their culture such as folklore, music, language, religion and get dressed with them to the Americas. The African cultural features were retained and nurtured in Jamaica because they guaranteed the survival of Africans and their descendants against European attempts at cultural annihilation. This book illuminates the complexities of accommodation and resistance, showing that these complex responses aren’t polar opposites, but melded into every other. As well as, the Language of Get dressed reveals the dynamics of race, class and gender in Jamaican society, the role of girls in British West Indian history and contributes to ongoing interest within the history of girls and within the history of resistance.

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