Everyday display rituals illuminate how race and ethnicity are constructed

Evidence

However, in recent years more attention has been given to the more ephemeral practices of everyday life and a number of writers have argued that it is these complex rituals of display and interpretation which can illuminate the meanings of our social lives. By extension, the construction of race and ethnicity can be better understood through the addition of analysis of fashion and style. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2837

Categorization

• DEFINE: States the methodological premise of fashion as a lens onto race/ethnicity construction.
• XREF: connects to: Race pride was taught through domestic display and personal example — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 332