Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Dialectical MAGA: Sociopolitical and Legal Perspectives of a Little Red Hat

Dialectical MAGA: Sociopolitical and Legal Perspectives of a Little Red Hat IntroductionClothing has historically been employed as a communicative envoy of sociolegal power and as a tool by which sociopolitical order is built or challenged. Both informal and formal rules of fashion and dress have existed irrespective of geographical location or culture over time. Rarely though, is materiality of central concern (although this is changing especially on the sustainability front) (Porter). Instead, it is often the social meaning or perception of style‐fashion‐dress (Kaiser 22‐23) that thrusts it into the realm of sociolegal discourse as exemplified through the sumptuary laws of Elizabethan England or those of Edo Japan (Welters & Lillethun 139) or the sanbenitos of the Inquisitional autos de fé (Lea 162‐165).In the Americas, clothing and its meaning has for centuries been integral in the construction and execution of laws. Regulations on dress and appearance abounded as calculated measures to reinforce class distinctions and to curb mainly African/African‐descended women's enjoyment of the narrow liberties they did have under French and Spanish rule—via the Code Noir and Bando de buen gobierno respectively— throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Johnson 167‐169). Echoing these edicts in the US, the South Carolina Negro Acts limited enslaved black's dress practice during the eighteenth century (Ford http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of American Culture Wiley

Dialectical MAGA: Sociopolitical and Legal Perspectives of a Little Red Hat

Porter, Matthew
The Journal of American Culture , Volume 46 (1) – Mar 1, 2023
Download PDF
13 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/wiley/dialectical-maga-sociopolitical-and-legal-perspectives-of-a-little-red-JsKkPrdRMI

References (31)

Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 2023 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
ISSN
1542-7331
eISSN
1542-734X
DOI
10.1111/jacc.13427
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

IntroductionClothing has historically been employed as a communicative envoy of sociolegal power and as a tool by which sociopolitical order is built or challenged. Both informal and formal rules of fashion and dress have existed irrespective of geographical location or culture over time. Rarely though, is materiality of central concern (although this is changing especially on the sustainability front) (Porter). Instead, it is often the social meaning or perception of style‐fashion‐dress (Kaiser 22‐23) that thrusts it into the realm of sociolegal discourse as exemplified through the sumptuary laws of Elizabethan England or those of Edo Japan (Welters & Lillethun 139) or the sanbenitos of the Inquisitional autos de fé (Lea 162‐165).In the Americas, clothing and its meaning has for centuries been integral in the construction and execution of laws. Regulations on dress and appearance abounded as calculated measures to reinforce class distinctions and to curb mainly African/African‐descended women's enjoyment of the narrow liberties they did have under French and Spanish rule—via the Code Noir and Bando de buen gobierno respectively— throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Johnson 167‐169). Echoing these edicts in the US, the South Carolina Negro Acts limited enslaved black's dress practice during the eighteenth century (Ford

Journal

The Journal of American Culture – Wiley

Published: Mar 1, 2023

There are no references for this article.