Monica L. Miller
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186 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 2 Aug
Monica L. Miller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That would bring our financial markets and electronic commerce to a grinding halt.
It's the Lindy Hop, it's the Jitterbug, it's swing music, it's jazz.
And you and the dancers around you, you, my friends, are kitted out.
Kind of wide, lappelled jacket.
Underneath the jacket, we have very high-waisted pleated pants, but the pants are special.
That's when you get to see the sort of dynamism of the garment.
So a group of soldiers actually take it upon themselves to sort of attack.
zoot-suited youth in Los Angeles, beat people up, but also disrobe them, inflicting shame and humiliation.
As soon as Black people have certain forms of political freedom, one of the first things that they do when they feel that moment of liberation happening is they quote-unquote change clothes.
It's not just the suit that is unpatriotic, but it's who's in the suit.
It's about who democracy serves, who it's for.
It is about issues around belonging.
It's a question about how and if we can share space.
I grew up somewhere in the intersection of hip-hop and punk.
Clothing, dress, fashion, style, subculture, all of that was so important to both of those movements that I was just really fascinated.
I am a cultural historian.
I've been writing a great deal about Black fashion and dress cultures.
A young black man who was living in Georgia went to a tailor and ordered this suit.
It's really excessive.
The tailor's like, you're crazy, right?
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