Anne Cheng's brilliant new book, Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface, asks to be undressed. . . . [I]f one can't get inside Baker, one can move all around her, and critical movement
Anne Anlin Cheng is Professor of English and African American Literature at Princeton University and the author of The Melancholy of Race: Assimilation, Psychoanalysis, and Hidden Grief and Ornamentalism.