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HYDE PARK — Author Tanisha Ford will explain how black women permanently linked fashion to civil rights in the 1960s.
Ford will read from her book, “Dressing for the Revolution: The Politics of Style from Black Power to #BlackLivesMatter,” at 6 p.m. Thursday at the University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, 5733 S. University Ave.
Ford, an assistant professor of women, gender, sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has linked “soul style” to a system of symbols of gender and political liberation.
The event is free and open to the public.
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