II.3.5.e. "LOOKS," A SOCIABLE ART THAT IMMIGRANTS INVENT

MENU: 2.3.5.e. "Looks:" a sociable art  

APPEARANCE, A WAY TO COMMUNICATE

          Fred, vendor of  men's clothes 

In brief

• Making oneself a composition

• Beauty salons' good humor  

• Coiffures and beards that have became universal

• Barbershops and neighborhoods  

• Africans' humanistic advertising

• Reinventing dandies

• Politicizing Black men's fashion

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