Sartorial Postcolonialism: Meet Paris’ black dandies, the Sapeurs

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With the Sape movement, the image of power is reversed and the dazzling suit, the hat, the cigar and the cane make it possible to symbolically overcome the humiliation of colonial domination – while at the same time reminding us that it happened
— Read on theconversation.com/meet-paris-black-dandies-the-sapeurs-229927

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Published by Andreas Behnke

Associate Professor in International Political Theory University of Reading, UK

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  1. Thank you. This is cool. I am forwarding it to my daughter too.

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