Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima

ISBN-13: 9781107084032 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 240 str.

Tamara J. Walker

Opis

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

Recenzje

'Students and experts interested in the African diaspora, material culture, racial identity, the formation of Blackness, and gender will surely benefit from this book.' Erika Denise Edwards, Hispanic American Historical Review

Spis treści

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.