Toni Cade Bambara wrote novels about how we might build a better world. But her characters always knew a good outfit could tell a great story.
Minnie Ransom is cute, okay? She’s a rootworker, a spiritual healer, a crunchy-crunchy lady whose practice transcends earthly concerns. But when we meet her at the opening of Toni Cade Bambara’s nuclear disaster prequel,in the middle of healing a psychically broken civil rights worker, she’s wearing a flouncy red dress drawn in at the waist with kente cloth and a fringed, silky shawl that she handles like a cape.
Across her oeuvre—novels, short stories, criticism, and other writing—Bambara consistently uses clothing as the carrier for a great many things. It holds a bit of description, obviously, which extends naturally into bits of characterization. But she also uses it as a conveyance for ideals and even warnings.
After spending her day getting muddied and bloodied in SNCC-standard overalls during a protest march, she drags herself to a nearby hotel’s phone only to encounter the speaker from the culminating rally. He had arrived in a limo, hopping out in his Sunday best: “Then the shiny black boots stepping out onto the parched grass, the knife-crested pants straightening taut, the jacket hanging straight, the blinding white shirt, the sky blue tie.
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