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Tanisha Ford
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·Jul 3, 2019

How Bamboo Earrings Became Iconic

Long before Carrie Bradshaw adorned herself with them, they were the ultimate fly girl accessory — In the late 1980s and early ’90s, every Black and Brown girl and femme wanted a pair of bamboo earrings. They were the consummate earrings of city girls pioneering hip hop fashion. The earrings ain’t really made of bamboo, of course. Some folk paid top dollar for the real gold…

Hip Hop

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How Bamboo Earrings Became Iconic
How Bamboo Earrings Became Iconic
Hip Hop

6 min read

Tanisha Ford

Tanisha Ford

115 Followers

Tanisha C. Ford is a writer, cultural critic and professor of Africana Studies & History at the University of Delaware.

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