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Style as Politics
I Wear What I Mean
Americans often wear clothes, hairstyles, and body art that telegraph what they care about and who they are. Since the 1960s African Americans have worn African-inspired clothing like kofi hats and dashikis to symbolize black unity and pride. Buttons, hats, and T-shirts carry messages that celebrate cultural heroes like Martin Luther King, Jr. or protest racial injustices like police brutality. In "wearing what they mean," black people exercise a freedom of speech that racial oppression denied them for hundreds of years. |