ELDRIDGE CLEAVER’S CODPIECE

(and other sidequests)

Academic Sources



  1. Blake, Art. “Re-Dressing Race and Gender: The Performance and Politics of Eldridge Cleaver’s Pants.” Fashion Studies 1, no. 1 (2018): 1-37. https://doi.org/10.38055/FS010112.
  2. Bringhurst, Newell G. “Eldridge Cleaver’s Passage through Mormonism.” Journal of Mormon History 28, no. 1 (2002): 80–110. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23288647.
  3. Haller, M. (2022). Fashionable Men in Skin-Tight Pants: Shifts in Body Images and Concepts of Masculinity in the History of Men’s Legwear. In: Dexl, C., Gerlsbeck, S. (eds) The Male Body in Representation. Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88604-2_12
  4. Vestoj. “The Fig Leaf Mentality.” Vestoj: Journal of Sartorial Matters. https://vestoj.com/the-fig-leaf-mentality/
  5. Wells, Dan. “Born Again Black Panther: Race, Christian Conservatism, and the Remaking of Eldridge Cleaver.” Religion and American Culture 30, no. 3 (2020): 361–96. https://doi.org/10.1017/rac.2020.15.





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