Selling Us Back Our Culture

In last few years, the reemergence of the black power movement now reborn into the Black Lives Movement. Millions of African-Americans have been thirsty to reclaim a heritage that was stolen from them. In New York City, you can see people probably walking around in traditional African hairstyle and clothing. On Saturday I will be going to an African trunk show in the heart of Brooklyn. I would love to interview people buying and people selling fashions. For the buyers, I would like to see what the pieces mean to them what significance does buy this piece of African art, this piece of African clothing what does it mean to them and their own identity as an African-American person in America. For the sellers; what does it mean to bring their culture here and resell it back to their American distant cousins? And they also think would be interesting to do to explore if buying these items from black own vendors does that also hold some kind of significance to them to their identity. I think that clothing and hair are unique ways to express us that doesn’t have to be conventional communicated. So by wearing these traditional clothing that comes from Mali and Ghana what do the purchasers wants to say? What do they want people to see when they wear these things? And more importantly, how does it make them feel?

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