Book ID: CBB000082666

Black Venus: Sexualized savages, primal fears, and primitive narratives in French (1999)

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Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean (Author)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 1999
Physical Details: xii + 190 pp.; notes; bibl.; index

Description A study of the representation of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of 19th-century France.


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Authors & Contributors
Zamir, Shamoon
Williams, Elizabeth A.
Wilkinson, Doris Y.
Stone, Andrea
Sibeud, Emmanuelle
Savitt, Todd Lee
Journals
Phylon: Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture
L'Année Sociologique
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
History and Theory
Harvard Library Bulletin
Comparative Studies in Society and History
Publishers
University of Massachusetts Press
University of Chicago Press
Stanford University Press
Oxford University Press
National Portrait Gallery
University of Toronto
Concepts
African races
Medicine
African Americans and science
Slavery
Exhibits
Social relations; social groups
People
Livingstone, David
Haggard, Henry Rider
Grégoire, Henri
Freud, Sigmund
Du Bois, William Edward B.
Donaldson, Henry Herbert
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
Places
France
North America
British Isles
Caribbean
Great Britain
Africa
Institutions
Harvard University
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