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ENGL 100 105 Fama The Golden Thread 2024/2025

Guide for Professor Fama ENGL 100 or 105 courses reading The Golden Thread by Kassia St. Clair

Your  Task:

Your annotated bibliography will include citation and annotation for five sources:

  • A chapter from The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St Clair
  • At least one non-scholarly source of information
  • At least one scholarly source of information
  • Two additional sources, which can be scholarly or non-scholarly

Your Research Task:

Question: What is the historical, political, cultural, technological, and/or economic significance of the clothing you have chosen as your research topic?

Requirements: The essay must use at least five high-quality sources.

Source: Unit 3: Research Based Essay - Assignment page on Canvas

Podcast

Holtz Naim, Kristen, host. "Elaine Nichols." A Fashion Moment with Kristen Holtz Naim, season 2, episode 17, 29 Dec. 2021. A Fashion Moment, afashionmoment.com/tag/nmaahc/. Accessed 12 Oct. 2024.

Magazine article - reporting

Cooper, Leah Faye. "This Just In: Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams, and Anna Wintour Will Co-Chair the 2025 Met Gala Alongside Honorary Chair LeBron James." Vogue, 9 Oct. 2024, www.vogue.com/article/2025-met-gala-co-chairs. Accessed 14 Oct. 2024.

Academic article

Rabinovitch-Fox, Einav. “Fabricating Black Modernity: Fashion and African American Womanhood during the First Great Migration.” International Journal of Fashion Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2019, pp. 239–60, https://doi.org/10.1386/infs_00007_1 .
 

Mitchell, Natalie A., Tony Stovall, and David Avalos. "Representation of Women of Color on the Covers of the Top Three Fashion Magazines: A Content Analysis." The Journal of Consumer Marketing, vol. 40, no. 5, 2023, pp. 597-608. doi:https://doi.org/10.1108/JCM-03-2021-4560.

Bishop, Katelynn, et al. “Sized Out: Women, Clothing Size, and Inequality.” Gender and Society, vol. 32, no. 2, 2018, pp. 180–203. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26597060 . Accessed 22 Mar. 2025

Book

Gainer, Nichelle. Vintage Black Glamour. Special edition. Rocket 88, 2014.