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SLAVERY AND THE CULTURE OF TASTE
SLAVERY AND THE CULTURE OF TASTE
Book Category:
Social Science > Slavery
Author:
Simon Gikandi
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 13:
9780691140667
Price:
USD 45.00
Publication Year:
2011
Alternative Binding:
Ebook
Alternative ISBN 13:
9781400840113
Alternative Price:
USD 45.00

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Princeton University Press.

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Book Description

Simon Gikandi illustrates how the violence and ugliness of enslavement actually shaped theories of taste, notions of beauty, and practices of high culture, and how slavery's impurity informed and haunted the rarified customs of the time.

 

Book Review and Awards

Choice OAT, Winner, 14th Annual Suzanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize