
SLAVERY AND THE CULTURE OF TASTE |
Book Category:
Social Science > Slavery
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Author:
Simon Gikandi
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Binding:
Hardcover
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ISBN 13:
9780691140667
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Price:
USD 45.00
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Publication Year:
2011
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Alternative Binding:
Ebook
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Alternative ISBN 13:
9781400840113
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Alternative Price:
USD 45.00
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Publisher Info
Princeton University Press. InquiryBook 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