The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion

✍ Scribed by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu

Publisher: Duke University Press
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 266
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This ethnography of Asian American designers in New Yorks fashion industry explores their relations to the garment workers who produce their goods and to Asianness as a fashionable commodity.

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