Print Dr. Tanisha C. Ford’s Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl’s Love Letter to the Power of Fashion is a powerful and compelling memoir that is deeply historical. Ford — an associate professor of Africana studies and history at the University of Delaware — does a brilliant job tracing the roots of fashion and its intersection with African-American culture, music and social movements. “Our garments are archives of memories — individual and collective, material and emotion — that tell these rich, textured stories of our lives,” writes Ford. “To make it plain: our clothes make us feel things. All the things.” Ford, an expert on pop culture and a rising star in academia, said she wrote the book because she wanted to celebrate Black innovation in fashion. “We are the most creative folks, knowing how to do the most with the very least, in all the best ways,” she writes. “I wanted to pay homage to every Big Mama and Ma’dear who made sure that even if their kids had nothing but hand-me downs, they would be clean. “I wanted to shout out the kids who had to go to school in said ill-fitting hand-me down jeans and turned […]

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