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Exquisite Slaves : Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima by Tamara J. Walker (2019, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101107445957
ISBN-139781107445956
eBay Product ID (ePID)21038462118
Product Key Features
Number of Pages242 Pages
Publication NameExquisite Slaves : Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2019
SubjectSlavery, Fashion & Accessories, Black Studies (Global), Customs & Traditions, Latin America / General, Latin America / South America
TypeTextbook
AuthorTamara J. Walker
Subject AreaDesign, Social Science, History
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight12.3 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsAdvance praise: 'Exquisite Slaves represents a unique and distinctive contribution to the history of racial formation in Spanish America which will command the attention of the scholarly community. This book considerably deepens our understanding of colonial racial formation.' Herman Bennett, City University of New York
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal985/.25500496009033
Table Of ContentIntroduction; 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.
SynopsisExquisite Slaves examines how slaves in Lima, Peru used elegant clothing to express attitudes about gender and status. Drawing on a diverse range of sources and analyses, Walker demonstrates that in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Lima clothing signified both the reach and limits of slaveholders' power and racial domination., In Exquisite Slaves, Tamara J. Walker examines how slaves used elegant clothing as a language for expressing attitudes about gender and status in the wealthy urban center of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Lima, Peru. Drawing on traditional historical research methods, visual studies, feminist theory, and material culture scholarship, Walker argues that clothing was an emblem of not only the reach but also the limits of slaveholders' power and racial domination. Even as it acknowledges the significant limits imposed on slaves' access to elegant clothing, Exquisite Slaves also showcases the insistence and ingenuity with which slaves dressed to convey their own sense of humanity and dignity. Building on other scholars' work on slaves' agency and subjectivity in examining how they made use of myriad legal discourses and forums, Exquisite Slaves argues for the importance of understanding the body itself as a site of claims-making.
LC Classification NumberF3601.9.B55W35 2019
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