Infamous bodies : early Black women's celebrity and the afterlives of rights / Samantha Pinto.

"INFAMOUS BODIES portrays five black women "celebrities" from the late-18th and 19th centuries whose histories and ongoing fame have generated new ways of imagining black feminist futures. Phillis Wheatley, Sally Hemings, Saartjie Baartman, Mary Seacole, and Sarah Bonetta have each be...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via JSTOR)
Main Author:	Pinto, Samantha (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Subjects:	Wheatley, Phillis, > 1753-1784. Hemings, Sally. Baartman, Sarah. Seacole, Mary, > 1805-1881. Bonetta, Sarah Forbes, > 1843?-1880. Women, Black, in popular culture. African American women in popular culture. Women, Black > Legal status, laws, etc. African American women > Legal status, laws, etc. African American feminists. Womanism. Fame > Social aspects.