Tamara J Walker

Exquisite Slaves

Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the relationship between clothing and status in the urban slaveholding society of Lima, Peru.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 165mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781107084032
• ISBN-10: 1107084032
• Artikelnr.: 48401119

Autorenporträt

Tamara J. Walker earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan. Her previous work has appeared in Slavery and Abolition, Safundi, Gender and History, and the Journal of Family History.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Slavery and the aesthetic of mastery
2. Legal status, gender, and self-fashioning
3. Black bodies and boundary trouble
4. Painting, print culture, and colonial ideation
5. Ladies, gentlemen, slaves, and citizens
Epilogue.