Helen Bradley Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 4515746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Bradley Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen Bradley |
| FAMILY NAME | Foster |
| SIGNATURE | FOSTER H B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sites Unseen: Architecture, Race, and American Literature
William A. Gleason offers an intriguing way to look at race in America via the architecture mentioned in diverse literary genres. While his idea is a good starting point, Gleason's deep readings give too much information to be easily deciphered, resulting in elusive thematic clarity. Having the introduction's endnotes in the main text would have helped steer the reader toward where the author's topics are heading. Breaking down subjects into shor…
Appendix III: Cloth Dyes Reported in the Narratives
Wearing Antebellum Clothing
Constructing Cloth and Clothing in the Antebellum South
Crowning the Person
Clothing as the Weft of a Folk History
Having Footwear
Epilogue
Introduction: Warping a Folk History
Embellishing the Head
Beginning in Africa
Greek Sparto: Past and Present
Sparto, a perennial broom, grows wild in the mountainous and semi-mountainous regions of the Mediterranean. Throughout antiquity Greeks processed the plant for its fibers, which they hand braided and loom wove into rope and textiles. Archaeological material and ancient testimonia demonstrate the extensive use of sparto as a raw material in Greek culture over a long period. Nevertheless, scholars consistently overlook the widespread exploitation o…
The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech
The Australian historians Shane White and Graham White again break new ground in retrieving the experiences of African Americans and the white people among them during the period of enslavement. Building on their earlier premise by scrutinizing black American culture of that period by defining particular aspects of style, White and White dig deep into the oral testimony of the formerly enslaved, into contemporary writings of European Americans ab…
Stylin: African American Expressive Culture from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit
Journal Article Stylin': African American Expressive Culture from its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit. By Shane White and Graham White. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xviii, 301 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-8014-3179-4.) Get access Helen Bradley Foster Helen Bradley Foster College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000…
New Raiments of Self: African American Clothing in the Antebellum South
Journal Article “New Raiments of Self”: African American Clothing in the Antebellum South. By Helen Bradley Foster. (New York: Berg, 1997. x, 359 pp. Cloth, $46.00, ISBN 1-85973-184-8. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-85973-189-9.) Get access Spencer Crew Spencer Crew National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85,…
New Raiments of Self
New Raiments of Self
The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech
The Australian historians Shane White and Graham White again break new ground in retrieving the experiences of African Americans and the white people among them during the period of enslavement. Building on their earlier premise by scrutinizing black American culture of that period by defining particular aspects of style, White and White dig deep into the oral testimony of the formerly enslaved, into contemporary writings of European Americans ab…
Sites Unseen: Architecture, Race, and American Literature
William A. Gleason offers an intriguing way to look at race in America via the architecture mentioned in diverse literary genres. While his idea is a good starting point, Gleason's deep readings give too much information to be easily deciphered, resulting in elusive thematic clarity. Having the introduction's endnotes in the main text would have helped steer the reader toward where the author's topics are heading. Breaking down subjects into shor…
New Raiments of Self
New Raiments of Self: African American Clothing in the Antebellum South
Journal Article “New Raiments of Self”: African American Clothing in the Antebellum South. By Helen Bradley Foster. (New York: Berg, 1997. x, 359 pp. Cloth, $46.00, ISBN 1-85973-184-8. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-85973-189-9.) Get access Spencer Crew Spencer Crew National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85,…
Stylin: African American Expressive Culture from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit
Journal Article Stylin': African American Expressive Culture from its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit. By Shane White and Graham White. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xviii, 301 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-8014-3179-4.) Get access Helen Bradley Foster Helen Bradley Foster College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000…
Greek Sparto: Past and Present
Sparto, a perennial broom, grows wild in the mountainous and semi-mountainous regions of the Mediterranean. Throughout antiquity Greeks processed the plant for its fibers, which they hand braided and loom wove into rope and textiles. Archaeological material and ancient testimonia demonstrate the extensive use of sparto as a raw material in Greek culture over a long period. Nevertheless, scholars consistently overlook the widespread exploitation o…
The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech
The Australian historians Shane White and Graham White again break new ground in retrieving the experiences of African Americans and the white people among them during the period of enslavement. Building on their earlier premise by scrutinizing black American culture of that period by defining particular aspects of style, White and White dig deep into the oral testimony of the formerly enslaved, into contemporary writings of European Americans ab…
Appendix III: Cloth Dyes Reported in the Narratives
Wearing Antebellum Clothing
Constructing Cloth and Clothing in the Antebellum South
Crowning the Person
Clothing as the Weft of a Folk History
Having Footwear
Epilogue
Introduction: Warping a Folk History
Embellishing the Head
Beginning in Africa
Sites Unseen: Architecture, Race, and American Literature
William A. Gleason offers an intriguing way to look at race in America via the architecture mentioned in diverse literary genres. While his idea is a good starting point, Gleason's deep readings give too much information to be easily deciphered, resulting in elusive thematic clarity. Having the introduction's endnotes in the main text would have helped steer the reader toward where the author's topics are heading. Breaking down subjects into shor…
History (10 works) · Art (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Clothing (5 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art history (3 works)