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Wayward lives, beautiful experiments : intimate histories of social upheaval / Saidiya Hartman.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hartman, Saidiya V., author.
Contributor:
EBSCOhost
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
African American young women--Social conditions--19th century.
African American young women.
African American young women--Social conditions--20th century.
African American young women--Sexual behavior--History.
Single women--United States--Social conditions--19th century.
Single women.
Single women--United States--Social conditions--20th century.
Urban women--United States--Social conditions--19th century.
Urban women.
Urban women--United States--Social conditions--20th century.
Sex customs--United States--History.
Sex customs.
Prostitution--United States--History.
Prostitution.
Man-woman relationships.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxi, 441 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Contents:
A note on method
Cast of characters
Book One. She makes an errant path through the city. The terrible beauty of the slum
A minor figure
An unloved woman
An intimate history of slavery and freedom
Manual for general housework
An atlas of the wayward
A chronicle of need and want
In a moment of tenderness the future seems possible
Book Two. The sexual geography of the Black Belt. 1900. The tenderloin. 241 West 41st Street
1909. 601 West 61st Street. A new colony of colored people, or Malindy in Little Africa
Mistah beauty, the autobiography of an ex-colored woman, select scenes from a film never cast by Oscar Micheaux, Harlem, 1920s
Family albums, aborted futures: a disillusioned wife becomes an artist, 1890 Seventh Avenue
Book Three. Beautiful experiments. Revolution in a minor key
Wayward: a short entry on the possible
The anarchy of colored girls assembled in a riotous manner
The arrested life of Eva Perkins
Riot and refrain
The socialist delivers a lecture on free love
The beauty of the chorus
The chorus opens the way.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-418) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Print version record
Other Format:
Print version: Hartman, Saidiya V. Wayward lives, beautiful experiments.
ISBN:
9780393285680
0393285685
Publisher Number:
90104715737
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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