Nationalism without a nation: Understanding the dress of somali women in Minnesota

Fashioning Africa: Power and the Politics of Dress

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 50-63

  Akou, Heather Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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