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Article: Stylin': African American Expressive Culture from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit.
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- August 1, 2000
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Stylin': African American Expressive Culture from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit. By Shane White and Graham White. (Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 301. $30.00, ISBN 0-8014-3179-4.)
Shane White and Graham White have pushed an old argument to new and imaginative heights. Did slavery create black sambos because rebellions by slaves in English North America and then the United States were quite petty by Caribbean and Latin American standards? A consensus seems to be that slaves in North America conducted a day-to-day style of rebellion that persisted into the post-slavery era and continued into the twentieth century because ...