Fashion at the Frontier Photography, Time, and Colonial Modernity on Brazil's Madeira-Mamoré Railroad

Acknowledgments
Preface

Introduction: Leaving the station
A late arrival
Emphases and erasures
Railroad tracks
Boom to bust
Modernities
The passenger list
Archival patchwork
Listening to clothes
Chapter outline

1. Fashion, time, and global capitalism
Chronos and kairos
Complicity and critique
The commodity frontier
Railroad time
Uniform time
Work time
Fashion time
Photographic time
Merrill's album

2. Timekeeping and ingrained time
Fashioning the frontier
Laborious histories of labor
Colonizing time, space, and bodies
Marks of wear and tear
Following a thread
Lingering, malingering

3. Laundering and dirty laundry
Dressing for the tropics
Laundering the truth
Speed and sanitation
Fashioning whiteness
Whiteness in material form
Dirty laundry

4. Whitening and whiteness
Entangled modernities
Different shades of white
Sanitizing Rio
Racialized frontiers
A mirage of modernity
Not quite white
Whiteness as a façade

5. Women's time: on the threshold
Domesticating the jungle
The home
The hospital
Centering Blackness
The steam laundry
A photographic fragment
The presence of absence

Afterword: End of the line

Notes
Bibliography
Index