Monica L. Miller
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 2 Aug
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It is about issues around belonging.
It's a question about how and if we can share space.
It's interesting to me in this moment that that becomes externalized, both in terms of skin color, but also the clothing.
I think we're always having that conversation, but this is a moment in which that conversation becomes something really visible on people's bodies.
If we think about that sort of multicultural, multiracial solidarity, we also see other forms of community forming, not only for, I think, mutual defense, but I think in the earlier moments when all of these youth take on the suit.
It's not just for defense purposes, but it's also for purposes of self-expression.
We think about how the suit dances on the dance floor.
It's also about certain forms of joy.
It does.
I think there's also a way that you can, and that I have in the past, thought about the
American history as related to iterations of a suit.
There's an other earlier moment in American history, really around the turn of the 19th century, as African Americans are being emancipated in the North.
There's a styling out moment that happens.
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.
They give up clothing related to a previous identity that might have been an enslaved identity or an identity as a kind of rural person, right?
If they're emancipating and moving to the north, right, they change clothes.
And some of the outfits that were chosen even at that time were really ostentatious.
Right?
Loud color, loud pattern, not excessive.
Some of the clothes at that time were seen as very small, right?
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