Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered

Contributor(s): Nelson, Elyse (Editor), Walters, Wendy S (Editor)

ISBN: 9781588397447

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

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Pub Date: March 29, 2022

Lexile Code: 0000

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Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.60" H x 9.00" L x 7.10" W ( 1.15 lbs) 140 pages

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Description: A critical reexamination of Carpeaux's bust Why Born Enslaved! and other nineteenth-century antislavery images--this book interrogates the treatment of the Black figure as a malleable political symbol and locus of exoticized beauty

Review Quotes: "A collection of richly researched reflections."--New West Indian Guide