history of the athletic shoe, utilitarian usage, intersections of gender and race in dress, media representation, vernacular, production and labor politics . . .
JOSIAH
Vanderbilt, Tom. The Sneaker Book: Anatomy of an Industry and Icon.
New York: New Press, 1998.
Eicher, Joanne, ed. Dress and Ethnicity: Change and Space Over Time.
Oxford; Washington D.C. : Berg, 1995
Tulloch, Carol, ed. Black Style.
London; V&A Publications, 2004.
JSTOR
Dale Coye "The Sneakers/Tennis Shoe Boundary"
American Speech, Vol. 61. No. 4 (Winter, 1986) pp 366-369.
1 comment:
Sneakers play a really significant role in most kids' books, MANIAC MAGEE and HOLES are the two that come to mind right now. I'm sure a significant portion of how society views sneakers is based on children.
Also: http://books.google.com/books?id=T_4NAAAACAAJ&dq=sneaker&lr=&ei=k1vpSOPgNIGCywS2gqiMDg
WHERE DID YOU GET THOSE? NEW YORK CITY'S SNEAKER CULTURE
Nupur Shridhar
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