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Exquisite Slaves - Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima (Paperback)
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Exquisite Slaves - Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima (Paperback)
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In Exquisite Slaves, Tamara J. Walker examines how slaves used
elegant clothing as a language for expressing attitudes about
gender and status in the wealthy urban center of eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century Lima, Peru. Drawing on traditional historical
research methods, visual studies, feminist theory, and material
culture scholarship, Walker argues that clothing was an emblem of
not only the reach but also the limits of slaveholders' power and
racial domination. Even as it acknowledges the significant limits
imposed on slaves' access to elegant clothing, Exquisite Slaves
also showcases the insistence and ingenuity with which slaves
dressed to convey their own sense of humanity and dignity. Building
on other scholars' work on slaves' agency and subjectivity in
examining how they made use of myriad legal discourses and forums,
Exquisite Slaves argues for the importance of understanding the
body itself as a site of claims-making.
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