Off White

Bringing together all the greats--from Air Jordan 1 to Air Presto--Nike and Virgil Abloh reinvent sneaker culture with the collaborative project The Ten and redesign 10 sneaker icons. Experience engineering ingenuity and Abloh's investigative design process: each shoe is a piece of industrial design, a readymade sculpture, and a wearable all at once.

How do English-speaking novelists and filmmakers tell stories of China from a Chinese perspective? How do they keep up appearances of pseudo-Sino immanence while ventriloquizing solely in the English language? Anglo writers and their readers join in this century-old game of impersonating and dubbing Chinese. Throughout this wish fulfillment, writers lean on grammatical and conceptual frameworks of their mother tongue to represent an alien land and its yellowface aliens. Off-white or yellow-ish characters and their foreign-sounding speech are thus performed in Anglo-American fiction and visual culture; both yellowface and Chinglish are of, for, by the (white) people. Off-White interrogates seminal Anglo-American fiction and film on off-white bodies and voices. It commences with one Nobel laureate, Pearl Buck, and ends with another, Kazuo Ishiguro, almost a century later. The trajectory in between illustrates that the detective and mystery genres continue unabated their stock yellowface characters, who exude a magnetic field so powerful as to pull in Japanese anime. This universal drive to fashion a foil is ingrained in any will to power, so much so that even millennial China creates an “off-yellow,” darker-hued Orient in Huallywood films to silhouette its global ascent.

With a fascinating new introduction on the proliferation and development of the field of whiteness studies and updated essays throughout, this much-anticipated second ddition continues to redefine our understanding of race and society. Also inlcludes three maps.

Off-White Hollywood investigates how the 'ethnicity' of white European-American actresses has played a key role in the mythology of American identity and nation building. Negra focuses on key stars of the silent - Colleen Moore and Pola Negri - classical - Sonja Henie and Hedy Lamarr - and post-classical eras - Marisa Tomei and Cher - to demonstrate how each star illuminates aspects of ethnicity, gender, consumerism, and class at work in American culture.

From home decor and gardening to fashion and health, color expert and bestselling author Eiseman answers more than 150 commonly asked questions in this beautiful guide to the influence of color.

Off White is an amalgamation of womanhood and queerness, pain and growth, acceptance and recovery, assured identity and insecure ambiguity. It is not in that order because the healing process is not linear. It stings, but hopefully not too much. It is as "white" as it is new, and it is as "off" as it is already deeply, irreparably flawed. More than anything, it is for you. "Gay" moves through coming out as LGBTQ to narcissistic men and a Catholic family; "Skinny" continues trudging through eating disorders and a falsely constructed perception of the perfect female body; "Broken" considers the weight of clinical anxiety and the parts of a disease that don't feel purely medical.

Most thorough guide covers history, traditions, basic hooking directions, transferring designs, dyeing fabrics, much more. Complete instructions for 12 projects. 78 illustrations, including 21 in full color.