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Commentary: The fashions we costume ourselves in are not without important cultural significance. Until the conclusion of WWII the limited employment opportunities available to African American men & women often required them to wear clownish uniforms meant to demean them and imply they were not fit for more mature roles in society – bell hops, shoeshine “boys”, doormen, chauffeurs, porters and maids.
Medium: Vintage large double sided tin advertising sign, 4 racist stereotype wood bellhops, 3 old handmade shoeshine boxes with transfer photos of WWII Black soldiers, wood discs of WWII soldiers' photos
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