[PDF.06so] Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture

Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture

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 | #1232436 in Books |  imusti |  2005-07-17 |  2005-08-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.44 x6.00l,.60 | File type: PDF | 192 pages

 | Routledge

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| good book so far.|By Vidalina P. Arthur-snead|I am very interested in this topic and this book is easy to read and contributes a lot to this area of study.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Engaging|By Mb Lashley|My students are engaging a full discussion of this book! Most of them read it in one sitting. Great|About the Author|Janell Hobson is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at the State University of New York at Albany.

Western culture has long been fascinated by black women, but a history of enslavement and colonial conquest has variously labeled black women's bodies as "exotic" and "grotesque." In this remarkable cultural history of black female beauty, Janell Hobson explores the enduring figure of the "Hottentot Venus."

In 1810, Saartjie Baartman was taken from South Africa to Europe, where she was put on display at circuses, salons, and museums and universities as the "Ho...

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