Infamous Bodies : Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights /

"INFAMOUS BODIES portrays five black women "celebrities" from the late-18th and 19th centuries whose histories and ongoing fame have generated new ways of imagining black feminist futures. Phillis Wheatley, Sally Hemings, Saartjie Baartman, Mary Seacole, and Sarah Bonetta have each become crucial fi...

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Main Author:	Pinto, Samantha (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:	Bonetta, Sarah Forbes, > 1843?-1880. Seacole, Mary, > 1805-1881. Baartman, Sarah. Hemings, Sally. Wheatley, Phillis, > 1753-1784. Fame > Social aspects. Womanism. African American feminists. African American women > Legal status, laws, etc. Women, Black > Legal status, laws, etc. African American women in popular culture. Women, Black, in popular culture. Electronic books.
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