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Over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

Every day, we all get dressed.

We welcome to dress the history of fashion, a podcast where we explore the who let when of why we wear.

We are fashion historians and your host, April Callahan.

And Cassidy Zachary. So you've heard us mention this on the podcast a time or two dress listeners,

but fashion and race are intimately interconnected. But what does that relationship look like

historically and why does it matter to today? So for answers, we are so pleased to welcome

independent scholar and fashion educator Kimberly Jenkins back to the show.

If that name sounds familiar, it's because Kim joined us earlier this season to discuss her

wonderful podcast, the invisible scene, unsung stories of black culture and fashion.

And her name should also sound familiar because we've spoken about Kim's work many times on the show

before as somebody who is doing a valuable and important work educating audiences around the globe

from the general public to billion dollar luxury fashion labels about the complex interactions

of fashion and race. She does this with her digital global learning platform dedicated to that

very relationship, the fashion and race database. You've heard us say at time and a time again on the show,

fashion history is about more than pretty close. And there's this interconnecting thread between

fashion and race's relationship throughout history and today. But it's a thread that is rarely

critically considered in the canon of fashion history that often privileges white

euro-american-centered narratives. Just as fashion and race are not mutually exclusive entities,

neither are the past and the present. With over 1600 resources from essays to books to podcasts,

Kim's groundbreaking database brings all of these things into conversation with one another

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