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Irigoyen-Garcia, Javier. Moors Dressed as Moors: Clothing, Social Distinction and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.
Investigates the intersection of clothing and racial difference in early modern Iberia. Beginning from the context of bans on Muslims wearing clothes coded as "Moorish," Irigoyen-Garcia shows how sartorial praxes and epistemologies configured the construction of a Christian ruling class in 16th and 17th century Iberia, while simultaneously becoming a key part of a racializing code for forcibly converted Muslims and their descendants (Muslim and Christian alike). The book considers conversations in the history of clothing, cultural history, public ritual, and Iberia.