How long does it take to read Slaves to Fashion?
Monica L. Miller
Slaves to Fashion by Monica L. Miller takes about 7 hours 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 19 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2009. 399 pages, about 109,725 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 12 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Clothes make the manand other intergendered subjectivitiesin this stimulating study of the social meaning of fashion in the black community. Barnard English professor Miller surveys the history of sartorial style and flamboyance among black dandies and the cultural responses, both fascinated and alarmed, they have provoked. She paints a broad and teeming panorama: the 18th-century English dandy whose stylishness subtly subverted the markers of slavery; his appearance in the writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain and W.E.B. Du Bois; his reappearance in 20th-century Harlem as an icon of freedom and modernity; his role in avant-garde film and art; and modern-day avatars Sean Combs and Andre 3000. Throughout, she explores the protean manifestations of dandyism, its blurring of racial and sexual boundaries, its significations of status and respectability, its capacity to satirize white fashionableness even as it expressed black determination to emulate and surpass white high-style. Miller's writing can be densely academic"A dandy is a kind of embodied, animated sign system that deconstructs given and normative categories of identity"but she offers an incisive, nuanced analysis of a rich vein of cultural history. Photos. (Nov.)" --Publishers Weekly Reviews.
Subjects: Dandyism, Fashion, Clothing and dress, Race identity, African American men, Clothing
