Modativismo: When fashion meets the struggle
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Fashion, Ancestrality, Decoloniality, BlacknessAbstract
This review analyzes the book Modativism: When Fashion Meets the Struggle, by Carol Barreto, published by Editora Paralela in 2024. The work offers a reflection on the relationships between fashion, body, and politics, establishing the concept of “modativism” as an epistemology of resistance and a project of aesthetic reexistence for Black women. Barreto conceives fashion as a territory of symbolic and pedagogical struggle, in which the act of dressing becomes a political and spiritual gesture. Academic whiteness and the Eurocentric paradigms that structure fashion teaching and practice are questioned by the author through the proposal of a decolonial pedagogy grounded in ancestry, collectivity, and creation as a form of thought. By integrating art, activism, and education, Modativism stands as a fundamental work for understanding fashion as a critical practice and a field of emancipation.
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BARRETO, Carol. Modativismo: Quando a moda encontra a luta. Editora Paralela, 2024, 206 p.
COLLINS, Patricia Hill. “Aprendendo com a outsider within: A significação sociológica do pensamento feminista negro”. Sociedade e Estado, Brasília, v. 31, n. 1, jan./abr. 2016.
HOOKS, Bell. Ensinando a transgredir: A educação como prática da liberdade. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2013.
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