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Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reimagining Rupture and Repair
I: Archival Considerations
1. Archives Matter: Dress Histories, Buildings, and the Digital Era (Rita Morais de Andrade, Universidade Federal do Goias, Brazil)
2. Catholic Reliquary Lockets in the Colonial Americas: Foreign Objects with Native Presence (Alison Napier, Independent Scholar, USA)
3. Manila Shawls, Trading Routes and Global Encounters (Ines Corujo Martin, CUNY New York City College of Technology, USA)
4. Decolonizing Fashion, Assembling a Ruana History. Genealogies of a Resisting and Undesirable Garment (Edward Salazar Celis, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA)
5. The Name of the Clothes: Cuban Fashion Brands, 1959-1989 (Maria A. Cabrera Arus, New York University, USA)
II: Culture's Empowering Lens
6. Afro-Brazilian Styles: Dress, Race, and Coloniality in Nineteenth-Century Portraits (Alliny Cabral, Independent Scholar, Brazil)
7. Spotting Afro-Peruvian Women: A (Brief) Sartorial History in Polka Dots (Tamara Walker, Barnard College, USA)
8. "Are Feminists Elegant?": Shaping Gender and Literary Style Through Fashion (Alba Aragon, Bridgewater State University, USA)
9. Imagining through Images: Clothes and Family Memories in Afro-Brazilian Identity (Hanayra Negreiros, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, Brazil)
III: Social Unrest and Resistance
10. Skirting the Colonial Gaze: Indigenous Reconfigurations of Feminine Identity (Maria Claudia Andre, Hope College, USA)
11. Fashion, Performance, and Re-existing in Trans Representation (Stephanie N. Saunders, Lyon College, USA)
12. The Politics of Clothed Bodies in Chile's Social Outburst (Pia Montalva, Independent Scholar, Chile)
13. Fashion in Distress: Cultural Fragments and Recycled Identities in Contemporary Argentina (Regina A. Root, William & Mary, USA)
14. From Low to High: Fashion, Reggaeton, and Latino Male Idols (William Cruz Bermeo, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia)
IV: Creative and Collective Agency
15. The Fashion of Face Masks in Mexico: Protest, Culture, and Idnetity during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Andrea A. Gaytan Cuesta, University of North Florida, USA)
16. Transnational Experiences in Fashion: The Work of Equihua, Barragan and Ricardo Seco (Tanya Melendez-Escalante, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, USA)
17. The National Movement of Maya Weavers and Neocolonialism in Fashion Intellectual Property (Kedron Thomas, University of Delaware, USA)
18. Design as a Natural Healer (Maria Carolina Garcia, Universitario Belas Artes de Sao Paulo, Brazil)
