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Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima

by Tamara J. Walker

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 c

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Publication date

2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

242

ISBN

9781107445956