Word: urbanities
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...band. In contrast to Jones herself, the rest of the band members were all male and all young. One guitarist was wearing a black and orange pin-striped suit with a bright teal tie, another was dressed like a 1950s gangster, and the third looked like an Urban Outfitters version of a Buddhist monk. Standing in the middle of this motley crew, surrounded by an exorbitant amount of various instruments, Jones looked like a little girl lost in a strange, musical land. She, however, was anything but a little girl to her group of boys, even joking at one point...
...Beckert’s class holds a slim lead over Literature and Arts B-20, “Designing the American City,” which enrolls 353 undergraduates. “I am proud of my class’ size,” said Professor in Practice of Urban Design Alex Krieger, who heads the course. “I’d like to think I’m the reason,” he joked, attributing the large enrollment size to a limited selection of Literature and Arts Core classes and the “unusual?...
From Vogue editor-at-large Andre Leon Talley’s dramatic duds, to the urban-chic attire of inner-city fashionistas, black expression and creativity through fashion lives even today. Interestingly, some elements of the unique assemblage that has characterized black culture have even seeped into the mainstream. Casual hip-hop attire, for example, which was born out of a predominately black movement, has taken catwalks by storm and invaded the closets of millions worldwide...
...have donned baggy jeans, Chuck Taylor Converses, or Sunday hats when in their hometowns, a significant number shed these clothes for items that are more “suitable” for Harvard’s fashion culture. Many students who enter Harvard wearing the clothing of an urban dictate leave campus in sweater vests and loafers, ready to face a corporate world in which causal Fridays do not include construction boots or Nike Air Force One sneakers. Entire student groups are aware of the social implications their attire—Kuumba adheres to a strict uniform of dressy black...
...over the last forty years is divided into three parts, each dealing with a different historical period. The first focuses on the antebellum years, the second on the Gilded Age, and the third on the 20th century. Trachtenberg covers a wide range of topics, with an emphasis on photography, urban studies, and literature. Trachtenberg views himself as the descendant of the historical critics of the 1920s who first used cultural criticism to examine photography and, in the process, created the field of American studies as we know it.Unfortunately, he is much more in dialogue with these historians than with...