Podcast appearances and mentions of Tanisha C Ford

An engrossing social history of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who reigned over the glittering "Beaux Arts Ball,” the social event of New York and Harlem society for fifty years—a glamorous soiree rivaling today's Met Gala, drawing America's wealthy and cultured, both Black and white. Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement (Amistad Press, 2024) brilliantly illuminates a little known yet highly significant aspect of the civil rights movement that has been long overlooked—the powerhouse fundraising effort that supported the movement—the luncheons, galas, cabarets, and traveling exhibitions attended by middle-class and working-class Black families, the Negro press, and titans of industry, including Winthrop Rockefeller. No one knew this world better or ruled over it with more authority than Mollie Moon. With her husband Henry Lee Moon, the longtime publicist for the NAACP, Mollie became half of one of the most influential couples of the period. Vivacious and intellectually curious, Mollie frequently hosted political salons attended by guests ranging from Langston Hughes to Lorraine Hansberry. As the president of the National Urban League Guild, the fundraising arm of the National Urban League; Mollie raised millions to fund grassroots activists battling for economic justice and racial equality. She was a force behind the mutual aid network that connected Black churches, domestic and blue-collar laborers, social clubs, and sororities and fraternities across the country. Historian and cultural critic Tanisha C. Ford brings Mollie into focus as never before, charting her rise from Jim Crow Mississippi to doyenne of Manhattan and Harlem, where she became one of the most influential philanthropists of her time—a woman feared, resented, yet widely respected. She chronicles Mollie's larger-than-life antics through exhaustive research, never-before-revealed letters, and dozens of interviews. Our Secret Society ushers us into a world with its own rhythm and rules, led by its own Who's Who of African Americans in politics, sports, business, and entertainment. It is both a searing portrait of a remarkable period in America, spanning from the early 1930s through the late 1960s, and a strategic economic blueprint today's activists can emulate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An engrossing social history of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who reigned over the glittering "Beaux Arts Ball,” the social event of New York and Harlem society for fifty years—a glamorous soiree rivaling today's Met Gala, drawing America's wealthy and cultured, both Black and white. Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement (Amistad Press, 2024) brilliantly illuminates a little known yet highly significant aspect of the civil rights movement that has been long overlooked—the powerhouse fundraising effort that supported the movement—the luncheons, galas, cabarets, and traveling exhibitions attended by middle-class and working-class Black families, the Negro press, and titans of industry, including Winthrop Rockefeller. No one knew this world better or ruled over it with more authority than Mollie Moon. With her husband Henry Lee Moon, the longtime publicist for the NAACP, Mollie became half of one of the most influential couples of the period. Vivacious and intellectually curious, Mollie frequently hosted political salons attended by guests ranging from Langston Hughes to Lorraine Hansberry. As the president of the National Urban League Guild, the fundraising arm of the National Urban League; Mollie raised millions to fund grassroots activists battling for economic justice and racial equality. She was a force behind the mutual aid network that connected Black churches, domestic and blue-collar laborers, social clubs, and sororities and fraternities across the country. Historian and cultural critic Tanisha C. Ford brings Mollie into focus as never before, charting her rise from Jim Crow Mississippi to doyenne of Manhattan and Harlem, where she became one of the most influential philanthropists of her time—a woman feared, resented, yet widely respected. She chronicles Mollie's larger-than-life antics through exhaustive research, never-before-revealed letters, and dozens of interviews. Our Secret Society ushers us into a world with its own rhythm and rules, led by its own Who's Who of African Americans in politics, sports, business, and entertainment. It is both a searing portrait of a remarkable period in America, spanning from the early 1930s through the late 1960s, and a strategic economic blueprint today's activists can emulate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

An engrossing social history of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who reigned over the glittering "Beaux Arts Ball,” the social event of New York and Harlem society for fifty years—a glamorous soiree rivaling today's Met Gala, drawing America's wealthy and cultured, both Black and white. Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement (Amistad Press, 2024) brilliantly illuminates a little known yet highly significant aspect of the civil rights movement that has been long overlooked—the powerhouse fundraising effort that supported the movement—the luncheons, galas, cabarets, and traveling exhibitions attended by middle-class and working-class Black families, the Negro press, and titans of industry, including Winthrop Rockefeller. No one knew this world better or ruled over it with more authority than Mollie Moon. With her husband Henry Lee Moon, the longtime publicist for the NAACP, Mollie became half of one of the most influential couples of the period. Vivacious and intellectually curious, Mollie frequently hosted political salons attended by guests ranging from Langston Hughes to Lorraine Hansberry. As the president of the National Urban League Guild, the fundraising arm of the National Urban League; Mollie raised millions to fund grassroots activists battling for economic justice and racial equality. She was a force behind the mutual aid network that connected Black churches, domestic and blue-collar laborers, social clubs, and sororities and fraternities across the country. Historian and cultural critic Tanisha C. Ford brings Mollie into focus as never before, charting her rise from Jim Crow Mississippi to doyenne of Manhattan and Harlem, where she became one of the most influential philanthropists of her time—a woman feared, resented, yet widely respected. She chronicles Mollie's larger-than-life antics through exhaustive research, never-before-revealed letters, and dozens of interviews. Our Secret Society ushers us into a world with its own rhythm and rules, led by its own Who's Who of African Americans in politics, sports, business, and entertainment. It is both a searing portrait of a remarkable period in America, spanning from the early 1930s through the late 1960s, and a strategic economic blueprint today's activists can emulate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

An engrossing social history of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who reigned over the glittering "Beaux Arts Ball,” the social event of New York and Harlem society for fifty years—a glamorous soiree rivaling today's Met Gala, drawing America's wealthy and cultured, both Black and white. Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement (Amistad Press, 2024) brilliantly illuminates a little known yet highly significant aspect of the civil rights movement that has been long overlooked—the powerhouse fundraising effort that supported the movement—the luncheons, galas, cabarets, and traveling exhibitions attended by middle-class and working-class Black families, the Negro press, and titans of industry, including Winthrop Rockefeller. No one knew this world better or ruled over it with more authority than Mollie Moon. With her husband Henry Lee Moon, the longtime publicist for the NAACP, Mollie became half of one of the most influential couples of the period. Vivacious and intellectually curious, Mollie frequently hosted political salons attended by guests ranging from Langston Hughes to Lorraine Hansberry. As the president of the National Urban League Guild, the fundraising arm of the National Urban League; Mollie raised millions to fund grassroots activists battling for economic justice and racial equality. She was a force behind the mutual aid network that connected Black churches, domestic and blue-collar laborers, social clubs, and sororities and fraternities across the country. Historian and cultural critic Tanisha C. Ford brings Mollie into focus as never before, charting her rise from Jim Crow Mississippi to doyenne of Manhattan and Harlem, where she became one of the most influential philanthropists of her time—a woman feared, resented, yet widely respected. She chronicles Mollie's larger-than-life antics through exhaustive research, never-before-revealed letters, and dozens of interviews. Our Secret Society ushers us into a world with its own rhythm and rules, led by its own Who's Who of African Americans in politics, sports, business, and entertainment. It is both a searing portrait of a remarkable period in America, spanning from the early 1930s through the late 1960s, and a strategic economic blueprint today's activists can emulate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

An engrossing social history of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who reigned over the glittering "Beaux Arts Ball,” the social event of New York and Harlem society for fifty years—a glamorous soiree rivaling today's Met Gala, drawing America's wealthy and cultured, both Black and white. Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement (Amistad Press, 2024) brilliantly illuminates a little known yet highly significant aspect of the civil rights movement that has been long overlooked—the powerhouse fundraising effort that supported the movement—the luncheons, galas, cabarets, and traveling exhibitions attended by middle-class and working-class Black families, the Negro press, and titans of industry, including Winthrop Rockefeller. No one knew this world better or ruled over it with more authority than Mollie Moon. With her husband Henry Lee Moon, the longtime publicist for the NAACP, Mollie became half of one of the most influential couples of the period. Vivacious and intellectually curious, Mollie frequently hosted political salons attended by guests ranging from Langston Hughes to Lorraine Hansberry. As the president of the National Urban League Guild, the fundraising arm of the National Urban League; Mollie raised millions to fund grassroots activists battling for economic justice and racial equality. She was a force behind the mutual aid network that connected Black churches, domestic and blue-collar laborers, social clubs, and sororities and fraternities across the country. Historian and cultural critic Tanisha C. Ford brings Mollie into focus as never before, charting her rise from Jim Crow Mississippi to doyenne of Manhattan and Harlem, where she became one of the most influential philanthropists of her time—a woman feared, resented, yet widely respected. She chronicles Mollie's larger-than-life antics through exhaustive research, never-before-revealed letters, and dozens of interviews. Our Secret Society ushers us into a world with its own rhythm and rules, led by its own Who's Who of African Americans in politics, sports, business, and entertainment. It is both a searing portrait of a remarkable period in America, spanning from the early 1930s through the late 1960s, and a strategic economic blueprint today's activists can emulate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

An engrossing social history of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who reigned over the glittering "Beaux Arts Ball,” the social event of New York and Harlem society for fifty years—a glamorous soiree rivaling today's Met Gala, drawing America's wealthy and cultured, both Black and white. Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement (Amistad Press, 2024) brilliantly illuminates a little known yet highly significant aspect of the civil rights movement that has been long overlooked—the powerhouse fundraising effort that supported the movement—the luncheons, galas, cabarets, and traveling exhibitions attended by middle-class and working-class Black families, the Negro press, and titans of industry, including Winthrop Rockefeller. No one knew this world better or ruled over it with more authority than Mollie Moon. With her husband Henry Lee Moon, the longtime publicist for the NAACP, Mollie became half of one of the most influential couples of the period. Vivacious and intellectually curious, Mollie frequently hosted political salons attended by guests ranging from Langston Hughes to Lorraine Hansberry. As the president of the National Urban League Guild, the fundraising arm of the National Urban League; Mollie raised millions to fund grassroots activists battling for economic justice and racial equality. She was a force behind the mutual aid network that connected Black churches, domestic and blue-collar laborers, social clubs, and sororities and fraternities across the country. Historian and cultural critic Tanisha C. Ford brings Mollie into focus as never before, charting her rise from Jim Crow Mississippi to doyenne of Manhattan and Harlem, where she became one of the most influential philanthropists of her time—a woman feared, resented, yet widely respected. She chronicles Mollie's larger-than-life antics through exhaustive research, never-before-revealed letters, and dozens of interviews. Our Secret Society ushers us into a world with its own rhythm and rules, led by its own Who's Who of African Americans in politics, sports, business, and entertainment. It is both a searing portrait of a remarkable period in America, spanning from the early 1930s through the late 1960s, and a strategic economic blueprint today's activists can emulate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

Harlem and Moscow is an audio drama based on the true story of the Harlem Renaissance in the Soviet Union. Red Flags, is the official companion podcast to Harlem and Moscow.  In this episode of Harlem and Moscow: Red Flags, host Panama Jackson is talking to experts about the people of the Harlem Renaissance who went on this trip to Moscow back in 1932. We learn more about Dorothy West, Langston Hughes, Henry Lee Moon, Louise Thompson, and others who journeyed to the Soviet Union. We also talk about other Black artists in the “Harlem and Moscow” circle like Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Paul Robeson, and many others. Plus we dish on the gossip of the era and how surprisingly shady folks in that time were! Panama is joined by the playwright of “Harlem and Moscow” Alle Mims as well as historian, cultural critic, and author of  “Our Secret Society,” Tanisha C. Ford.  Music Courtesy Of: Transition "Fantastic Voyage” Lakeside BMG Gold Songs, H&R Lastrada Music, Tiemeyer McCain Publishing Fred Alexander, Norman Paul Beavers, Marvin Craig, Frederick E. Lewis, Tiemeyer Le'Mart, Thomas Oliver Shelby, Stephen Preston Shockley, Otis Stokes, Mark Adam WoodSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week we interview Tanisha C. Ford, a cultural critic, educator, and author. Her latest book, Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon, and the Glamour, Money and Power Behind the Civil […]

Stories of the Civil Rights Movement don't often center the fundraisers, often Black women, whose tireless efforts made the movement possible; today we're featuring one of those women. Mollie Moon, born in 1907, the founder and first chairperson of the National Council of Urban League Guilds, raised millions of dollars for the Civil Rights Movement, using her charm and connections to throw charity galas, like her famed Beaux Arts Ball, where everyone wanted to be seen. Her long service to the movement eventually earned her the President's Volunteer Action Award from President George H. W. Bush in 1989. Joining this episode to tell us all about Mollie Moon and the funding of the Civil Rights Movement is Dr. Tanisha C. Ford, professor of history in The Graduate Center, at CUNY, and author of Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement. Our theme song is Frogs Legs Rag, composed by James Scott and performed by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons. The mid-episode music is “Crazy Blues,” composed by Perry Bradford and performed by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in 1921; the recording is in the public domain and available via the Library of Congress National Jukebox. The episode image is from the cover of Our Secret Society; Image: Harper Collins. Additional Sources: “Socialite Mollie Moon Used Fashion Shows to Fund the Civil Rights Movement,” by Tanisha C. Ford, Harper's Bazaar, March 8, 2021. “Mollie Moon, 82, Founding Head Of the Urban League Guild, Dies,” by Peter B. Flint, New York Times, June 26, 1990. “Mollie Moon: A Real Voice,” by Lev Earle, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester, March 25, 2021. “Henry Lee Moon (1901-1985),” by Susan Bragg, BlackPast, June 19, 2011. “Louise Thompson and the Black and White Film,” by Denise Lynn, Black Perspectives, AAIHS, April 15, 2021. “Harlem Community Art Center,” Mapping the African American Past, Columbia University. National Urban League Guild. “Funding a Social Movement: The Ford Foundation and Civil Rights, 1965-1970,” by Rachel Wimpee, Rockefeller Archive Center, November 4, 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Kathryn McClymond was recently named the 18th president of Oglethorpe University, making her the first woman to lead the liberal arts college in Brookhaven. She talks with Rose about her new role and her top priorities, including assisting first-year college students through a DEI program. Plus, Tanisha C. Ford, a historian, author and professor of history at The Graduate Center at City University of New York, talks with Rose about her new book, "Our Secret Society." The book profiles Mollie Moon and others who organized fundraising events for the civil rights movement.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

For this episode, host Kate Carpenter interviews Dr. Tanisha C. Ford. Tanisha is a writer, historian, and professor of history at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She is the author of three books and many articles on subjects at the intersection of politics and culture, and especially on Black fashion and social movements. Her first book, Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul, was published in 2016, and in 2019 she released her second book, Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion. Her newest book, Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement came out just last month. It's a fascinating biography of famed Black fundraiser and activist Mollie Moon that takes readers into the world of an overlooked aspect of the civil rights era. Kate's conversation with Tanisha covers how she brought the world of Mollie Moon to life, her methods for organizing her sources--the "oldest of old school"--and why she's glad she was an English major.

In today's episode I am joined by fashion historian and host of The Black Fashion History Podcast, Taniqua Russ. Informed by the research of Dr. Tanisha C. Ford, Taniqua and I spend time discussing the fashion of Black people during the Freedom Movement of the 1960's-1970's. In this discussion we unpack what stylistic choices share about one's politics with respect to their involvement during the Freedom Movement and how that informs activist's fashion of today. You can find Taniqua on Instagram ⁠here⁠. As for her podcast you can find on Apple Podcasts or check out her website ⁠here⁠. Also don't forget to check out Blk Ivy Thrift located at 3605 Lancaster Avenue in Philadelphia. You can also shop their website here. You can also shop their sister brand, Grant Blvd online here. Job 29:14 “I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; My justice was like a robe and a turban.” ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Website

Muchas personas apasionadas por la moda empiezan a aprender sobre ella a través de la lectura: tal vez con alguno de los miles de libros escritos sobre Coco Chanel o los de imágenes que celebran el trabajo de distintas personas, marcas y medios de la industria. Pero en este capítulo queremos hablar de los libros que abordan la moda desde un punto de vista más académico, con contenido más crítico, basado en investigación y análisis de la moda como fenómeno sociocultural. En esta ocasión, Laura Beltrán-Rubio, Sandra Mathey García-Rada y Jeniffer Varela Rodríguez hablamos de nuestros favoritos y aquellos que nos marcaron.Referencias:Amy Odell, Ana: The Biography (Londres: Atlantic Books, 2022).Ashley Mears, Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model (University of California Press, 2011).Dana Thomas, Fashionopolis, (Nueva York : Penguin Press, 2019).Elizabeth Wilson, Adorned in Dreams, (Londres: I.B. Tauris, 1985).Francesca Granata, Fashion Criticism: An Anthology (Londres, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021).Frederic Godart, Sociologia de la moda, (Buenos Aires: Edhasa, 2012).Frederic Godart, Penser La Mode (Paris: Editions du Regard, 2011). Gilles Lipovetsky, El imperio de lo efímero: la moda y su destino en las sociedades modernas (Barcelona: Anagrama, 2004).Lyneise E. Williams, Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932, (Londres: Bloomsbury, 2019).Orsola de Castro, Loved Clothes Last: How the Joy of Rewearing and Repairing Your Clothes Can Be a Revolutionary Act, (Nueva York, Penguin Life, 2021).Rosario Inés Granados Salinas, ed., Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America (Austin, TX: Tower Books, 2022).Tanisha C. Ford, Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion (Nueva York: St. Martin's Press, 2019). Tim Gunn y Ada Calhoun, Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet (Nueva York: Gallery Books, 2013). Yuniya Kawamura y Jung-Whan Marc de Jong, Cultural Appropriation in Fashion and Entertainment (Londres: Bloomsbury, 2022).Encuéntranos en:http://www.modadospuntocero.com/p/salon-de-moda-podcast.html@moda2_0 @culturasdemoda @coventrendlab#SalonDeModaAgradecemos a Fair Cardinals (@faircardinals) por la música, a Jhon Jairo Varela Rodríguez por el diseño gráfico y a Maca Rubio por la edición del audio.

Dr. Tanisha C. Ford returns to discuss her recently released memoir Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl’s Letter to the Power of Fashion (2019). More on Dr. Ford: http://www.tanishacford.com Recommended Reading: The Incredible Whiteness of the Museum Fashion Collection: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/style/museums-fashion-racism.html Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

The paradox of clothing is that it can be at once the most public and the most personal of items a person can use to express their identity historically and today, a dichotomy found throughout the work of today's guest Dr. Tanisha C. Ford. She joins us for part one of a two part discussion on her books Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul (2015), and her recently released memoir Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl’s Letter to the Power of Fashion (2019). More on Dr. Ford: http://www.tanishacford.com Additional Reading: Kwame Brathwaite: Black is Beautiful Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Black culture is central to American culture—we simply don’t have America without having the Black experience, born of slavery and systemic racism and white supremacy, of physical and mental and emotional pain. But through generations, Black women and men have passed down stories given from their mothers and grandmothers. They’ve cooked and sang and danced and played the most beautiful music. They’ve wrote and dreamed and created. Black culture has inspired us for hundreds of years as it has woven its way into the tapestry of American life. And today, we’re going to talk about the richness of it all with Dr. Tanisha C. Ford, a cultural critic and professor of history at CUNY. Dr. Ford shares the artists and icons that shaped her world as a young Black woman growing up (everyone from her own mother and her leather jackets, to the music of Aretha Franklin and TLC, Roberta Flack and Mary J. Blige). Dr. Ford shows us how looking deeply at culture helps us see the threads of politics and society woven within. We learn why cultural appropriation is tied to systems of exploitation. We see why we need to shift our eyes away from history books that haven’t centered important Black pioneers like Anna Julia Cooper and Ida B. Wells, why everyone needs to read words from thinkers like James Baldwin and Audre Lorde. We see how Shirley Chisholm paved the way for Kamala Harris. We see the beauty and strength of artists like Nina Simone and Billie Holiday, and how they birth artists like Alicia Keys and Janelle Monáe. And through it all we see how new forms of technology have carried Black voices to new corners of the world for decades, planing the seeds for social media to blossom into a powerful force for the change that we’re seeing today. * * *  Thank you to our sponsors! Author School | Reserve your spot today at https://authorschool.com/jenhatmaker Noom | Sign up for your trial at http://noom.com/forthelove  Jenni Kayne |  Get 20% off your first order! Go to https://jennikayne.com, promo code FORTHELOVE FabFitFun | Use coupon code FTL for $10 off your first box at https://fabfitfun.com  #fabfitfunpartner

We reflect on Rebecca’s MA Documenting Fashion students’ brilliant work this year and discuss the exciting virtual exhibitions ‘Jalebi’ by Ahluwalia and Laurence Ellis, and ‘"My Heart will always be in Brixton": Olive Morris’ by Linett Kamala with the Black Cultural Archives on Google Arts and Culture. See links below. Courtauld Institute of Art, MA History of Art Special Option: Documenting Fashion: Modernity, Films and Image in America and Europe, 1920-1960: https://courtauld.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/ma-history-art/documenting-fashion http://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/documentingfashion/ V&A, London, fashion exhibitions: https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/exhibiting-fashion-victoria-and-albert-museum/5wKyuCOYoCgBIA?hl=en Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, fashion publications: https://tinyurl.com/tca9for Kwame Brathwaite: https://www.kwamebrathwaite.com/ Tanisha C. Ford: http://www.tanishacford.com/ The Grandassa Models: https://www.instagram.com/thegrandassamodels/ Ahluwalia: https://www.ahluwaliastudio.com/ Jalebi, photographed by Laurence Ellis: https://www.ahluwaliastudio.com/jalebi-shop/jalebi Laurence Ellis: https://www.laurenceellis.com/ ‘My heart will always be in Brixton’: Olive Morris - An exhibition of artwork by Linett Kamala inspired by the activism of Olive Morris, Google Arts & Culture (2020): https://artsandculture.google.com/story/XwWReH6wADe8xA Linett Kamala: https://linettkamala.com/ Black Cultural Archives: https://blackculturalarchives.org/

In this episode, Taniqua discusses how business formal attire and denim were used in the 1960s to highlight racism injustice, sexism and classism during the Civil Rights Movement. Sources/Further Reading: Liberated Threads by Tanisha C. Ford SNCC Women, Denim, and the Politics of Dress by Tanisha C. Ford Join our email list to receive exclusive notes and updates by texting your name and email to (864) 539 -2284 Email us: theblackfashioncloset@gmail.com Follow us: @blackfashioncloset @blackfashionhistorypodcast @taniquaruss And if you haven't done so already, please take a moment to rate and review the show. We love hearing your feedback! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/black-fashion-history/message

Reset sits down with Tanisha C. Ford Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion. Host, Natalie Moore

In this episode of #BlackFashionHistory, we breakdown how Zelda Wynn Valdes rose to fame, her signature style and the legacy she left behind. *Episode correction: Valdes' boutique in 1948 was named Chez Zelda. Sources/Further Reading: Overlooked: Zelda Wynn Valdes by Tanisha C. Ford Fashionable Game-Changer: Zelda Wynn Valdes Matriarch of Dancers Sews Clothing of Delight by David Gonzalez Zelda Wynn Valdes by Becky Oeltjenbruns Join our email list to receive exclusive notes and updates by texting your name and email to (864) 539 -2284 Email us: theblackfashioncloset@gmail.com Follow us: @blackfashioncloset @blackfashionhistorypodcast And if you haven't done so already, please take a moment to rate and review the show. We love hearing your feedback! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/black-fashion-history/message

I veckans Stil ska vi ägna oss åt ett fenomen som följt människan under nästan alla tider, och som aldrig slutar att fascinera, trots att det är så tråkigt ledan. Upplevelsen av att inte ha något att göra i alla fall inget meningsfullt, eller kul har fått oändligt många att under historiens gång fundera över leda och tristess. Somliga har till och med lyckats lyfta upp ledan och fått den till att bli en sorts eftertraktansvärd stil. Inte minst inom litteraturen. Där finns det gott om exempel på författare som vältrat sig i skildringar av just leda eller ennui och spleen som dessa känslor av meningslöshet också har kallats. Idag har den typen av berättelser om en sorts outsäglig tristess fått en nytändning, fast i modern tappning. I vår moderna tid blev flykten från tristessen att shoppa. Att konsumera utvecklades under 1900-talet till ett stort och brett folknöje i industrialismens spår. Varuhus öppnade. Skyltfönster lockade. Reklam pockade. Och att gå ut på stan och köpa kläder eller bara fönstershoppa tillsammans med sina kompisar var för inte så länge sedan ett självklart sätt att umgås på. Idag säger sig många inte ha tid med att gå omkring i butiker för att köpa kläder. Det är ju så mycket enklare att med hjälp av sin smarta telefon, eller laptop, leta efter plagg man vill ha. Och det har aldrig varit lättare att klicka hem dem, tack vare att många modemärken erbjuder fria transporter och returer, om stil och storlek inte skulle passa. Men handlar man för att det är så kul? För glädjen att äntligen få nya kläder man längtat efter, så lätt och smidigt dessutom? Nej, många shoppar på nätet för att de säger sig ha tråkigt. I veckans program pratar vi med Jimmy Mogrip, författare till boken "Uppkopplad, urkopplad, avkopplad: så missbrukar vi skärmen och så kan vi koppla bort den", om varför vi nätshoppar så mycket på söndagar mellan klockan 21:00 och 22:00. Vi besöker också Handarbetets Vänner i Stockholm. Att ägna sig åt avancerat handarbete kräver inte bara kunskap, utan också ofta total koncentration. Det kan bli en slags vila, eller fristad, från tankar som snurrar i huvudet. Så kanske har det stillsamma handarbetet något att ge oss stressade nutidsmänniskor genom att lindra rastlöshet, och leda? Vi pratar också med författaren och historikern Tanisha C. Ford, aktuell med boken "Dressed in Dreams  a Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion". Boken handlar om vad kläder och mode har betytt för henne personligen, men den handlar lika mycket om politik, klass och populärkultur. Veckans gäst är Annina Rabe, litteraturkritiker.

In which the Historians interview Tanisha Ford about the parallels between Karen Hueger and Molly Moon, the role of fashion in creating community and Project Runway, why clothes are so important to everyone’s day-to-day lives, why Million Dollar Listing LA is better than Million Dollar Listing New York, the eco-system of fashion, and much much more!

Jenn spoke with author and professor Tanisha C. Ford about her new memoir Dressed in Dreams, which ties in personal history with cultural representation and fashion. This discussion ran the gamut from Black hair care, to nostalgia for FUBU and Karl Kani, to the importance of fashion within Black culture and what it set the stage for in terms of individual expression. [Transcription of this episode can be found on the Episodes tab on Tumblr.]

In this highly engaging book, fashionista and pop culture expert Tanisha C. Ford investigates Afros and dashikis, go-go boots and hotpants of the sixties, hip hop's baggy jeans and bamboo earrings, and the #BlackLivesMatter-inspired hoodies of today. The history of these garments is deeply intertwined with Ford's story as a black girl coming of age in a Midwestern rust belt city. She experimented with the Jheri curl; discovered how wearing the wrong color tennis shoes at the roller rink during the drug and gang wars of the 1980s could get you beaten; and rocked oversized, brightly colored jeans and Timberlands at an elite boarding school where the white upper crust wore conservative wool shift dresses. Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion (St. Martins Press, 2019) is a story of desire, access, conformity, and black innovation that explains things like the importance of knockoff culture; the role of “ghetto fabulous” full-length furs and colorful leather in the 1990s; how black girls make magic out of a dollar store t-shirt, rhinestones, and airbrushed paint; and black parents' emphasis on dressing nice. Ford talks about the pain of seeing black style appropriated by the mainstream fashion industry and fashion's power, especially in middle America. In this richly evocative narrative, she shares her lifelong fashion revolution―from figuring out her own personal style to discovering what makes Midwestern fashion a real thing too. Adam McNeil is a PhD Student in the Department of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this highly engaging book, fashionista and pop culture expert Tanisha C. Ford investigates Afros and dashikis, go-go boots and hotpants of the sixties, hip hop's baggy jeans and bamboo earrings, and the #BlackLivesMatter-inspired hoodies of today. The history of these garments is deeply intertwined with Ford's story as a black girl coming of age in a Midwestern rust belt city. She experimented with the Jheri curl; discovered how wearing the wrong color tennis shoes at the roller rink during the drug and gang wars of the 1980s could get you beaten; and rocked oversized, brightly colored jeans and Timberlands at an elite boarding school where the white upper crust wore conservative wool shift dresses. Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion (St. Martins Press, 2019) is a story of desire, access, conformity, and black innovation that explains things like the importance of knockoff culture; the role of “ghetto fabulous” full-length furs and colorful leather in the 1990s; how black girls make magic out of a dollar store t-shirt, rhinestones, and airbrushed paint; and black parents' emphasis on dressing nice. Ford talks about the pain of seeing black style appropriated by the mainstream fashion industry and fashion's power, especially in middle America. In this richly evocative narrative, she shares her lifelong fashion revolution―from figuring out her own personal style to discovering what makes Midwestern fashion a real thing too. Adam McNeil is a PhD Student in the Department of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

In this highly engaging book, fashionista and pop culture expert Tanisha C. Ford investigates Afros and dashikis, go-go boots and hotpants of the sixties, hip hop's baggy jeans and bamboo earrings, and the #BlackLivesMatter-inspired hoodies of today. The history of these garments is deeply intertwined with Ford’s story as a black girl coming of age in a Midwestern rust belt city. She experimented with the Jheri curl; discovered how wearing the wrong color tennis shoes at the roller rink during the drug and gang wars of the 1980s could get you beaten; and rocked oversized, brightly colored jeans and Timberlands at an elite boarding school where the white upper crust wore conservative wool shift dresses. Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion (St. Martins Press, 2019) is a story of desire, access, conformity, and black innovation that explains things like the importance of knockoff culture; the role of “ghetto fabulous” full-length furs and colorful leather in the 1990s; how black girls make magic out of a dollar store t-shirt, rhinestones, and airbrushed paint; and black parents' emphasis on dressing nice. Ford talks about the pain of seeing black style appropriated by the mainstream fashion industry and fashion’s power, especially in middle America. In this richly evocative narrative, she shares her lifelong fashion revolution―from figuring out her own personal style to discovering what makes Midwestern fashion a real thing too. Adam McNeil is a PhD Student in the Department of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this highly engaging book, fashionista and pop culture expert Tanisha C. Ford investigates Afros and dashikis, go-go boots and hotpants of the sixties, hip hop's baggy jeans and bamboo earrings, and the #BlackLivesMatter-inspired hoodies of today. The history of these garments is deeply intertwined with Ford’s story as a black girl coming of age in a Midwestern rust belt city. She experimented with the Jheri curl; discovered how wearing the wrong color tennis shoes at the roller rink during the drug and gang wars of the 1980s could get you beaten; and rocked oversized, brightly colored jeans and Timberlands at an elite boarding school where the white upper crust wore conservative wool shift dresses. Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion (St. Martins Press, 2019) is a story of desire, access, conformity, and black innovation that explains things like the importance of knockoff culture; the role of “ghetto fabulous” full-length furs and colorful leather in the 1990s; how black girls make magic out of a dollar store t-shirt, rhinestones, and airbrushed paint; and black parents' emphasis on dressing nice. Ford talks about the pain of seeing black style appropriated by the mainstream fashion industry and fashion’s power, especially in middle America. In this richly evocative narrative, she shares her lifelong fashion revolution―from figuring out her own personal style to discovering what makes Midwestern fashion a real thing too. Adam McNeil is a PhD Student in the Department of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this highly engaging book, fashionista and pop culture expert Tanisha C. Ford investigates Afros and dashikis, go-go boots and hotpants of the sixties, hip hop's baggy jeans and bamboo earrings, and the #BlackLivesMatter-inspired hoodies of today. The history of these garments is deeply intertwined with Ford’s story as a black girl coming of age in a Midwestern rust belt city. She experimented with the Jheri curl; discovered how wearing the wrong color tennis shoes at the roller rink during the drug and gang wars of the 1980s could get you beaten; and rocked oversized, brightly colored jeans and Timberlands at an elite boarding school where the white upper crust wore conservative wool shift dresses. Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion (St. Martins Press, 2019) is a story of desire, access, conformity, and black innovation that explains things like the importance of knockoff culture; the role of “ghetto fabulous” full-length furs and colorful leather in the 1990s; how black girls make magic out of a dollar store t-shirt, rhinestones, and airbrushed paint; and black parents' emphasis on dressing nice. Ford talks about the pain of seeing black style appropriated by the mainstream fashion industry and fashion’s power, especially in middle America. In this richly evocative narrative, she shares her lifelong fashion revolution―from figuring out her own personal style to discovering what makes Midwestern fashion a real thing too. Adam McNeil is a PhD Student in the Department of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rincey discuss The Gone Dead, Evvie Drake Starts Over, Big Sky, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Libro.fm, The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs by Katherine Howe, and FabFitFun. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes The Gone Dead: A Novel by Chanelle Benz Big Sky by Kate Atkinson The Great Unexpected by Dan Mooney Wicked Fox by Kat Cho The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence by Anita Anand The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean Murder in the Crooked House by Soji Shimada and Louise Heal Kawai What we're reading: They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Hall Initiated: Memoir of a Witch by Amanda Yates Garcia More books out this week: Cygnet: A Novel by Season Butler The Snakes by Sadie Jones A Family of Strangers by Emilie Richards Finding Mrs. Ford by Deborah Goodrich Royce Call It What You Want by Brigid Kemmerer The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs: A Novel by Katherine Howe This Is Not a T-Shirt: A Brand, a Culture, a Community--a Life in Streetwear by Bobby Hundreds The Drama of Celebrity by Sharon Marcus A Nearly Normal Family: A Novel by M.T. Edvardsson and Rachel Willson-Broyles Dear Wife by Kimberly Belle Paranoid by Lisa Jackson The Journal I Did Not Keep: New and Selected Writing by Lore Segal This Wicked Tongue by Elise Levine The Not Good Enough Mother by Sharon Lamb Here Is What You Do: Stories by Chris Dennis Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion by Tanisha C. Ford The Virtue of Sin by Shannon Schuren Queen of the Sea by Dylan Meconis Twisted Family Values by V.C. Chickering How Could She: A Novel by Lauren Mechling The Last Collection: A Novel of Elsa Schiaparelli and Coco Chanel by Jeanne Mackin That Other World: Nabokov and the Puzzle of Exile by Azar Nafisi, Lotfali Khonji (Translator) The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast by Andrew Blum Emperors of the Deep: The Ocean’s Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians by William McKeever The Friend: A Novel by Joakim Zander Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket by Fraser MacDonald Beyond the Limit by Cindy Dees Project Duchess by Sabrina Jeffries Say No to the Duke: The Wildes of Lindow Castle by Eloisa James Sweet Heat by Zuri Day Slow Dancing at Sunrise by Jo McNally Dating by the Book by Mary Ann Marlowe Kingdom of Exiles by Maxym Martineau Once Upon a Bad Boy by Melonie Johnson Gone Too Long: A Novel by Lori Roy Technically, You Started It by Lana Wood Johnson The Iron Dragon’s Mother by Michael Swanwick Hexarchate Stories by Yoon Ha Lee After the End by Clare Mackintosh The Orphan's Song by Lauren Kate I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

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Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give     mentioned in episode *Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give (the book) *The Hate U Give (film) *Tanisha C. Ford's "The Complexity of Black Girlhood Is at the Heart of The Hate U Give" *David Canfield's "The Hate U Give author Angie Thomas on why it's wrong to ban her Black Lives Matter novel" *Kyle Buchanan's "With One Strong Word, ‘The Hate U Give’ Couldn’t Hold Its Tongue" ​Check out what's coming up next.   want to support unabridged?   Become a patron on Patreon.​ Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram. Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter. Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on iTunes or on Stitcher. Check us out on Podbean.

Moviegoers across America are filling theaters to see, as The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer describes it, “a high-tech utopia that is a fictive manifestation of African potential unfettered by slavery and colonialism.” Wakanda, the setting of Marvel’s blockbuster film Black Panther, is suddenly everywhere, which means people the world over are seeing something that’s never had this widespread an audience: Afrofuturism. “Blockbusters rarely challenge consensus, and Disney blockbusters even less so,” Vann Newkirk wrote for The Atlantic in an essay about the film. “That’s what makes the final provocation of Black Panther so remarkable and applicable today.” But what is Black Panther’s remarkable provocation, and how does it apply to our world? Black Panther is only one part of a sudden explosion of Afrofuturism into mainstream American culture, from a new visual concept album by Janelle Monae to Children of Blood and Bone, a forthcoming YA book series by Tomi Adeyemi that has already become part of a seven-figure deal. Adam Serwer and Vann Newkirk join our hosts to talk about what this genre encompasses, and what its newfound popularity means. Links - “The Tragedy of Erik Killmonger” (Adam Serwer, February 21, 2018) - “The Provocation and Power of Black Panther” (Vann Newkirk, February 14, 2018) - “What Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong'o Learned About Wakanda” (David Sims, February 28, 2018) - “Why Fashion Is Key to Understanding the World of Black Panther” (Tanisha C. Ford, February 14, 2018) - “Why I'm Writing Captain America” (Ta-Nehisi Coates, February 28, 2018) - “‘Black Panther’ and the Invention of ‘Africa’” (Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, February 18, 2018) - “The Surprising Optimism of African Americans and Latinos” (Russell Berman, September 4, 2015) - Standing at Armageddon (Nell Irvin Painter) - Autonomous (Annalee Newitz) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 102, Kestrel welcomes Dominique Drakeford, the founder of Melanin & Sustainable Style, to the show. A platform that is bringing melanin to the forefront of sustainable fashion, beauty and living, MelaninASS is helping to give the ethical industry an authentic and culturally relevant voice.  "This whole community is about 'let's talk about what's wrong' - we talk about what's wrong from an environmental point of view, we talk about fast fashion and we point fingers at H&M and we do all this ... but let's look at ourselves and let's talk about some real issues that are wrong because honestly, sustainability is founded on culture - the essence of sustainability is rooted in culture and we don't talk about it."  -Dominique Drakeford, Founder of Melanin & Sustainable Style In this episode, Dominique shares a bit of her background and the eclectic experiences that have led her into the sustainable style conversation. Kestrel and Dominique also discuss the layers behind two notable articles written by Dominique: "Who The Hell Wants To See Only White Women In Sustainable Fashion" and "Why I Think Ethical Fashion Is A Privileged White Girl Thing". Dominique highlights several of the disconnects in the sustainable fashion conversation - from representation to discrimination to tokenism to appropriation to privilege - and how historical relevance and institutional racism are being left out of the discourse. They talk about the reality of how the ethical fashion space has been dominated by white women, and how privilege and race relations need to play a larger role in our approach to this conversation. Also, Dominique shares her inspiration behind the Vanguard Series, a project she developed on her platform to highlight "true visionaries and cultural influencers who are creating a positive impact in the fashion, beauty and/or the sustainable lifestyle industry."  The below thoughts, ideas + organizations were brought up in this chat: The GreenShows, a company Dominique worked with in the past Donna Karan Urban Zen, a company Dominique worked with in the past "You're not really going to create change until you make people uncomfortable." "Who The Hell Wants To See Only White Women In Sustainable Fashion" by Dominique "Why I Think Ethical Fashion Is A Privileged White Girl Thing" by Dominique, published on Eluxe Magazine Food apartheid, as explained in this article: "a relentless social construct that devalues human beings and assumes that people are unworthy of having access to nutritious food" Studio 189, one of Dominique's favorite brands, which she also worked with in Ghana Chan + Krys, one of Dominique's favorite brands Susana Colina, one of Dominique's favorite brands Remuse, one of Dominique's favorite brands Voz, one of Dominique's favorite brands Kowtow, one of Dominique's favorite brands Grammar, one of Dominique's favorite brands Vanguards Series on Melanin & Sustainable Style Dominique's 'Conscious Closets' Dominique's YouTube Channel Recommended reading from the intro: "Why Fashion Is Key to Understanding the World of Black Panther" by Tanisha C. Ford in The Atlantic

How do Black art and creativity help imagine new worlds? How does fashion help us think about the intersection of power and desire? What can we do to make space for public scholarship and community engagement in our work? In episode 45 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, Cathy Hannabach interviews Tanisha C. Ford about her research on the cultural and political dimensions of Black fashion, the state of contemporary critical fashion studies and its possible futures, how creative practice and academic work can inform one another, and why Black art and creative genius are key to her mode of imagining otherwise. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/45-tanisha-c-ford