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Black Style and Consumer Behavior in Fashion

Black Style

The highly distinctive styles adopted by black men and women over the last fifty years have their origins in the African diaspora, but they have also been molded by politics, cultural exchange and the desire of different social groups to forge a distinctive identity. Black Style looks at the huge variety to be seen in black dress, hair and accessories, whether in West Africa, Jamaica, or reinvented on the streets of the United States and Great Britain.
John Picton looks at West Africa and the relationship between the vibrant textile patterns dyed and woven by local tribes-people and the statuesque robes worn by West African communities; while Carolyn Cooper concentrates on Jamaican dress and its historical roots. Susan B. Kaiser, Leslie Rabine, Carol Hall and Daryl Ketchum highlight hip-hop culture within a broader historical context, placing the concept of respect, originating in the early years of slavery, at the center of the African-American style identity. Carol Tulloch draws on a wide range of examples, from the Evangelical church and gospel singers to family events such as weddings and funerals, the world of pop music, carnival and street markets, to portray the multiple strands that make up black dress and identity in Great Britain. Generously illustrated, this book portrays the wonderful diversity of approaches to fashion and individual style within the black community, while also giving voice to black men and women and engaging with current debates on the significance of dress in political and socio-cultural terms.
Black Style by Carol Tulloch
ISBN: 1851774246

Consumer Behavior in Fashion

This well-illustrated exploration of the social psychology of consumer behavior in relation to clothing is based on the most recent literature and research in the field and uses everyday, popular examples that make it easy for students to relate content to their own consumer activity.
Comprehensive, without being overwhelming, coverage ranges from the fashion implications of individual consumer dynamics (motivations, values, the self), demographic subcultures (age, race, ethnicity, income, social class), psychographics (personality, attitudes, and lifestyle), and consumer perceptions (object, person, physical); to fashion communications and decision making (individual and household, group influences, fashion opinion leadership); to ethics and consumer protection (social responsibility, environmental issues, and the role of government in consumer protection).
For junior/senior-level courses in Clothing and Consumer Behavior and Social Psychology of Clothing.
Consumer Behavior: In Fashion by Michael R. Solomon and Nancy J. Rabolt
ISBN: 013081122X

Jane Addams: Twenty Years at Hull-House

This is Jane Addams's graphic account of her famed settlement house in Chicago's West Side slums. Covering the years 1889 to 1909, a time when America was fired with fear of subversives and suspicion of foreigners, this book stands as the immortal testament of a woman who lived and worked among the immigrant settlers, the sweatshop toilers, the unwed mothers, the hungry, the aged, the sick, to show them the true concept of American Democracy.
Twenty Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams
ISBN: 0451527399

Georgia O'Keeffe

Although she did not consider them her specialty, Georgia O'Keeffe produced flower paintings so unique and compelling that for many people they remain the quintessence of the genre. No delicate Impressionistic pastels for Georgia O'Keeffe, whose garden is filled with fabulous, gargantuan blooms steeped in bold, intoxicating color and sweet perfume. Enlarged to Brobdingnagian proportions, these blossoms sing a siren song, inviting us to disappear inside the velvety, deep recesses of countless funnels, bells, and trumpets, or losing us among the whorls and folds of a thousand fragrant petals.
Culled from museums and private collections around the world, this gorgeous, oversized book collects 100 of Georgia O'Keeffe's astonishing flower canvases, displaying to perfection the sumptuous color, lavish detail, and sheer sensuality that imbue these beautiful and distinctive artworks. And, though they are bound to create an astonishingly beautiful book, dozens of these brilliantly colored plates lend themselves nicely to matting and framing. 13" x 16".
Georgia O'Keeffe: One Hundred Flowers
ISBN: 0760711127

Lighting Up

In the critically acclaimed Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Manhattan journalist Susan Shapiro revisited five self-destructive romances. In her hilarious, illuminating new memoir, Lighting Up, she rejects five self-destructive substances. This difficult quest for clean living starts with Shapiro's shocking revelation that, at forty, her lengthiest, most emotionally satisfying relationship has been with cigarettes.
A two-pack-a-day smoker since the age of thirteen, Susan Shapiro quickly discovers that it's impossible to be a writer, a nonsmoker, sane, and slender in the same year. The last time she tried to quit, she gained twenty-three pounds, couldn't concentrate on work, and wanted to kill herself and her husband, Aaron, a TV comedy writer who hates her penchant for puffing away. Yet just as she's about to choose her vice over her marriage vows, she stumbles upon a secret weapon. Dr. Winters, the James Bond of psychotherapy, is a brilliant but unorthodox addiction specialist, a former chain-smoker himself. Working his weird magic on her psyche, he unravels the roots of her twenty-seven-year compulsion, the same dangerous dependency that has haunted her doctor father, her grandfather, and a pair of eccentric aunts from opposite sides of the family, along with Freud and nearly one in four Americans. Dr. Winters teaches her how to embrace suffering, then proclaims that her months of panic, depression, insecurity, vulnerability, and wild mood swings win her the award for the worst nicotine withdrawal in the history of the world.
Shapiro finally does kick the habit, while losing weight and finding career and connubial bliss, only to discover that the second she's let go of her long-term crutch, she's already replaced it with another fixation. After banishing cigarettes, alcohol, dope, gum, and bread from her day-to-day existence, she conquers all her demons and survives deprivation overload. But relying religiously on Dr. Winters, she soon realizes that the only obsession she has left to quit is him.
Susan Shapiro's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, The Nation, Cosmopolitan, People, and many other publications. She lives with her husband in Greenwich Village, where she teaches writing at New York University and the New School.
Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex A Memoir by Susan Shapiro
ISBN: 0385338333