Kaiser and McCullough suggest an alternative way of thinking about "identity" with their metaphor of "knots" which are sensitive to location, context, and multiple strands of meaning that make up identities. They write, "Fashion can be seen as entangling everyday political acts with embodied and visual performances." Authenticity and "appropriation" become particularly intense concerns around notions of ethnic and race-specific dress.
How do racially and ethnically marked pieces of clothing circulate around Providence and Brown? Take a picture, or (just this once) simply report on something you see around campus amongst your friends and peers.
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