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Dress and Labor: An Intersectional Interpretation of Clothing and Adornment Artifacts Recovered from the Levi Jordan Plantation

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Flewellen, Ayana Omilade·2022·Archaeologies
DOI 10.1007/s11759-022-09443-4
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Through an examination of clothing, adornment, and hygiene artifacts recovered from the Quarters area of the Levi Jordan Plantation, this article examines how racial, gendered, and classed operations of power and oppression shaped African American women’s sartorial practices, as an aspect of identity formation, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Texas. Through a Black feminist framework, this article focuses on the ways African American women dressed their bodies for the types of labor they performed to discuss how they negotiated ideologies of race, gender, and class, that shaped hegemonic notions of femininity during the post-emancipation era.

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Authors
Flewellen, A. O.
Affiliations
University of California, Riverside (US)
Corresponding author
Flewellen, Ayana Omilade
ORCID
Flewellen, Ayana Omilade
Venue
Archaeologies
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2022-03-25
Volume
18
Issue
1
Pages
200-234
ISSN
  • 1555-8622 (ISSN-L)
  • 1935-3987
DOI
10.1007/s11759-022-09443-4
OpenAlex
W4229012911
Cited by
8
References
119
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 1
FWCI
2.91
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
Archaeologies (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
Texas Historical Commission
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Museology › Fashion and Cultural Textiles
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
Keywords
African American women, sartorial practices, clothing and adornment, intersectionality, Black feminism, femininity, race, class, and gender, plantation labor, Texas, archaeology of dress

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