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Explores both Zambian dress practices from the late-colonial period until the present and African contributions to globally circulating fashions.
Fashioning the Afropolis
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Myth of Liberal Ascendancy
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Based on new archival research, G. Williams Domhoff challenges popular conceptions of the 1930's New Deal. Arguing instead that this period was one of increasin