Listing 1 - 10 of 10 |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
African American young women --- Single women --- Urban women --- Sex customs --- Prostitution --- Social conditions --- Sexual behavior&delete& --- History --- Female prostitution --- Hustling (Prostitution) --- Prostitution, Female --- Sex trade (Prostitution) --- Sex work (Prostitution) --- Street prostitution --- Trade, Sex (Prostitution) --- White slave traffic --- White slavery --- Work, Sex (Prostitution) --- Sex-oriented businesses --- Brothels --- Pimps --- Procuresses --- Red-light districts --- Sex crimes --- City dwellers --- Women --- Young women, African American --- Young women --- Spinsters --- Unmarried women --- Single people --- Sexual behavior --- Sociology of minorities --- anno 1900-1999 --- Sex work --- Black feminism --- Book --- feminism --- African American
Choose an application
Choose an application
"In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, Hartman reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African-American history. The slave, Hartman observes, is a stranger, one torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider, an alien. There are no known survivors of Hartman's lineage, no relatives in Ghana whom she came hoping to find. She is a stranger in search of strangers, and this fact leads her into intimate engagements with the people she encounters along the way and draws her deeper into the heartland of slavery. She passes through the holding cells of military forts and castles, the ruins of towns and villages devastated by the trade, and the fortified settlements built to repel predatory armies and kidnappers. In artful passages of historical portraiture, she shows us an Akan prince who granted the Portuguese permission to build the first permanent trading fort in West Africa, a girl murdered aboard a slave ship, and a community of fugitives seeking a haven from slave raiders"--Jacket.
Slave trade --- Historic sites --- History. --- Hartman, Saidiya V. --- Travel --- Ghana --- Description and travel. --- History, Local. --- Historic sites. --- Slave trade. --- Travel. --- Sklavenhandel. --- History --- Geschichte. --- Ghana.
Choose an application
"In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity. Scenes of Subjection examines the forms of domination that usually go undetected; in particular, the encroachments of power that take place through notions of humanity, enjoyment, protection, rights, and consent. By looking at slave narratives, plantation diaries, popular theater, slave performance, freedmen's primers, and legal cases, Hartman investigates a wide variety of "scenes" ranging from the auction block and minstrel show to the staging of the self-possessed and rights-bearing individual of freedom. While attentive to the performance of power--the terrible spectacles of slaveholders' dominion and the innocent amusements designed to abase and pacify the enslaved--and the entanglements of pleasure and terror in these displays of mastery, Hartman also examines the possibilities for resistance, redress and transformation embodied in black performance and everyday practice. This important study contends that despite the legal abolition of slavery, emergent notions of individual will and responsibility revealed the tragic continuities between slavery and freedom. Bold and persuasively argued, Scenes of Subjection will engage readers in a broad range of historical, literary, and cultural studies."--Publisher's description.
Slaves --- Slavery --- African Americans --- Power (Social sciences) --- Self --- African Americans. --- Power (Social sciences). --- Self. --- Negers. --- Slavernij. --- Emancipatie. --- Rassendiscriminatie. --- Sklave. --- Unterdrückung. --- Sklaverei. --- Social conditions --- Social life and customs --- Psychological aspects --- History --- Psychological aspects. --- Social conditions. --- Social life and customs. --- To 1899. --- United States. --- USA. --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Personal identity --- Consciousness --- Individuality --- Mind and body --- Personality --- Thought and thinking --- Will
Choose an application
"In wrestling with the question, "What is a free life?" many young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship indifferent to the dictates of respectability, and outside the bounds of law. They cleaved to and cast off lovers, exchanged sex to subsist, and revised the meaning of marriage. Longing and desire fueled their experiments in how to live. They refused to labor like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of work. Beautifully written, Wayward Lives narrates the story of this radical transformation of black intimate and social life. It re-creates the experience of young black women who desired an existence qualitatively different than the one that had been scripted for them, and, for the first time, credits them with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. Through a melding of history and literary imagination, Wayward Lives seeks to recover the radical aspirations and insurgent desires of these young women."--Provided by publisher.
African American young women --- Frau. --- HISTORY --- Man-woman relationships. --- Prostitution --- Prostitution. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Schwarze. --- Sex customs --- Sex customs. --- Sexualverhalten. --- Single women --- Soziale Situation. --- Urban women --- Sexual behavior --- History. --- Social conditions --- Women. --- History --- Ethnic Studies --- African American Studies. --- Sociology --- Urban. --- Women's Studies. --- Social conditions. --- 1800-1999. --- United States. --- Social problems --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- New York City --- Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] --- Man woman relationships.
Choose an application
Slave trade --- Historic sites --- History --- Hartman, Saidiya V. --- Travel --- Ghana --- Description and travel. --- History, Local.
Choose an application
motion pictures [visual works] --- Photography --- scripts [writing] --- Iconography --- Homo sapiens [species] --- Simpson, Lorna --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States --- Women photographers --- Photography, Artistic --- Feminism in art --- Femmes photographes --- Photographie artistique --- Féminisme dans l'art --- Exhibitions --- Expositions --- Simpson, Lorna, --- Etats-Unis --- Social conditions --- Pictorial works --- Conditions sociales --- Ouvrages illustrés --- Féminisme dans l'art --- Ouvrages illustrés --- Exhibitions. --- Pictorial works. --- human figures [visual works] --- United States of America
Choose an application
History of North America --- anno 1800-1899 --- United States of America
Choose an application
"The first major monograph on Simone Leigh's multimedia explorations of community, Black feminism and the traditions and material cultures of the African diaspora. Over the past two decades, Simone Leigh has created artwork that situates questions of Black femme-identified subjectivity at the center of contemporary art discourse. Her sculpture, video, installation and social practice explore ideas of race, beauty and community in visual and material culture. Leigh's art addresses a wide swath of historical periods, geographies and traditions, with specific references to materials across the African diaspora, as well as forms traditionally associated with African art and architecture. This publication includes substantial new scholarship addressing Leigh's work across mediums and topics. The volume, timed with a major exhibition and national tour of the artist's work, includes contributions by her longtime collaborators, new scholars who add diverse insights and perspectives, and a conversation highlighting Leigh's voice. Additionally, generous and lushly illustrated plates feature her critically acclaimed work for the 59th Venice Biennale and works made throughout her 20-year career. A special section featuring Leigh's research images gives access to Leigh's research methodologies and encourages readers to fully engage with all aspects of Leigh's work. This monograph provides a timely opportunity to gain a holistic understanding of the complex and profoundly moving work of this groundbreaking artist."
Leigh, Simone --- Criticism and interpretation. --- African American sculptors --- African American sculpture --- African American women artists --- African American artists --- Art, American --- Art, Modern --- Artists --- Sculpture, American --- Sculpture, Modern --- Sculpteurs noirs américains --- Sculpture noire américaine --- Femmes artistes noires américaines --- Artistes noirs américains --- Art américain --- Art --- Artistes --- Sculpture américaine --- Sculpture --- ART / General. --- 2000-2099 --- United States --- African American
Choose an application
Listing 1 - 10 of 10 |
Sort by
|