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Wayward lives, beautiful experiments : intimate histories of social upheaval / Saidiya Hartman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hartman, Saidiya V., author.
- 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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