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Biography

Research explores the "new" politics of racial uplift as represented in the fashion instruction of post-Civil Rights African American print media; American fashion, beauty culture, and the politics of presentation.

Education/Academic qualification

History; American Studies, Fashioning "Essence" women and "Ebony" men: Sartorial instruction and the new politics of racial uplift in print, 1970-1993, Indiana University - Bloomington

… → 2011

History, "Hip-Hop is a Great Light-- when in Its Proper Form": The Continuity, Composition, and Controversions of Message Rap, 1987-1994, City College, City University of New York

… → 2004

English, Morgan State University

… → 2001