Exquisite Slaves - Tamara - Cambridge, 2019
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Exquisite Slaves
Race, Clothing, And Status In Colonial Lima
di Tamara J. (University of Pennsylvania) Walker
Editore: Cambridge University Press
EAN: 9781107445956
ISBN: 1107445957
Pagine: 242
Formato: Paperback
Exquisite Slaves examines how slaves in Lima, Peru used elegant clothing to express attitudes about gender and status. Drawing on a diverse range of sources and analyses, Walker demonstrates that in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Lima clothing signified both the reach and limits of slaveholders' power and racial domination.