{"id":24996,"date":"2012-08-27T00:05:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T00:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24996"},"modified":"2016-06-09T17:05:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T17:05:56","slug":"caribbean-fashion-week-remodeling-beauty-in-%e2%80%9cout-of-many-one%e2%80%9d-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24996","title":{"rendered":"Caribbean Fashion Week: Remodeling Beauty in \u201cOut of Many One\u201d Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2752\/175174110X12712411520377\" target=\"_blank\">Caribbean Fashion Week: Remodeling Beauty in \u201cOut of Many One\u201d Jamaica<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/berg\/jdbc\" target=\"_blank\">Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body &amp; Culture<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/berg\/jdbc\/2010\/00000014\/00000003\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 14, Number 3<\/a>, September 2010<br \/>\npages 387-404<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2752\/175174110X12712411520377\" target=\"_blank\">10.2752\/175174110X12712411520377<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mona.uwi.edu\/notices\/monaconf\/profiles\/cooper.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Carolyn Cooper<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The elitist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\" target=\"_blank\">Jamaican<\/a> motto, \u201cOut of Many, One People,\u201c privileges racial hybridity as the quintessential marker of national identity. Conversely, populist constructions of Jamaican identity acknowledge the primacy of the African majority. The \u201cmixed-race\u201c ideal inscribed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/b\/ba\/Coat_of_Arms_of_Jamaica.svg\/2000px-Coat_of_Arms_of_Jamaica.svg.png\" target=\"_blank\">national motto<\/a> becomes the aesthetic standard for judging \u201cbeauty\u201c and \u201cugliness.\u201c Beauty contests, for example, become sites of contestation in which competing representations of the face of the nation jostle for recognition. Identifying with marginalized African-Jamaican aspirants who often fail to win these competitions, discontented patrons routinely claim the right to assert alternative models of beauty that challenge the authority of the \u201cout of many one\u201c aesthetic. The emergence of a modeling industry in Jamaica that valorizes idiosyncratic style has opened up a space in which black images of beauty take center stage. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caribbeanfashionweek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Caribbean Fashion Week<\/a> is the major platform for displaying internationally acclaimed Jamaican models. Showcasing a high percentage of decidedly black male and female models wearing spectacular designer clothes, Caribbean Fashion Week enables multiple readings of the body as cultural text. The permissive modeling aesthetic engenders capricious images of beauty that contest the very conception of the \u201cmodel\u201c as a mold into which a singular figure of beauty is impressed.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/cart\/sign-in;jsessionid=g4btw8h2j4re.alice?url=%2Fcontent%2Fberg%2Fjdbc%2F2010%2F00000014%2F00000003%2Fart00007%3Ftoken%3D005e1f8b9b0bc342f6f3bac7b76504c48663b25533a442f243f632d5e6a332b257d7241255e4e6b6331f04c3d96154&amp;payment=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caribbean Fashion Week: Remodeling Beauty in \u201cOut of Many One\u201d Jamaica Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body &amp; Culture Volume 14, Number 3, September 2010 pages 387-404 DOI: 10.2752\/175174110X12712411520377 Carolyn Cooper, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica The elitist Jamaican motto, \u201cOut of Many, One People,\u201c privileges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,21,8413,8],"tags":[11660,11498,11499,11658,11659,80],"class_list":["post-24996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-communications","category-media-archive","tag-caribbean-fashion-week","tag-carolyn-cooper","tag-carolyn-j-cooper","tag-fashion-theory","tag-fashion-theory-the-journal-of-dress-body-culture","tag-jamaica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47470,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24996\/revisions\/47470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}