Exquisite slaves race, clothing, and status in colonial Lima
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 th...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2017
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Slavery and the aesthetic of mastery
- Legal status, gender, and self-fashioning
- Black bodies and boundary trouble
- Painting, print culture, and colonial ideation
- Ladies, gentlemen, slaves and citizens