III.5.4. "LOOKS," AN ART OF SOCIABILITY

Menu: 3.5.4. "Looks:" an art of sociability

APPEARANCE, SELF-EXPRESSION IN A HARMONIOUS COMMUNITY

A philosophy of African immigrants

Barbershop sign bought at Abidjan's Treichville market in 1973

Fred, vendor at Connivence, a men's wear store in La Goutte d'Or

In brief

• Making oneself a composition

• Hair, beards and moustaches

• How those styles began

• Barbershops and beauty salons

• Hair-dressers' salons' good humor

• Shops that continue the emphasis

• Africans' humanistic advertisements

• Detour: reinventing dandies

• Detour: politicizing Black men's fashion

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