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

Exquisite Slaves examines how slaves in Lima, Peru used elegant clothing to express attitudes about gender and status. Drawing on a diverse range of sources and analyses, Walker demonstrates that in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Lima clothing signified both the reach and limits of slaveholders' power and racial domination.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Slavery and the aesthetic of mastery; 2. Legal status, gender, and self-fashioning; 3. Black bodies and boundary trouble; 4. Painting, print culture, and colonial ideation; 5. Ladies, gentlemen, slaves, and citizens; Epilogue.

About the author

Tamara J. Walker earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan. Her previous work has appeared in Slavery and Abolition, Safundi, Gender and History, and the Journal of Family History.

Summary

Exquisite Slaves examines how slaves in Lima, Peru used elegant clothing to express attitudes about gender and status. Drawing on a diverse range of sources and analyses, Walker demonstrates that in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Lima clothing signified both the reach and limits of slaveholders' power and racial domination.

Product details

• Authors: Tamara J Walker, Tamara J. Walker, Tamara J. (University of Pennsylvania) Walker
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.04.2019
• EAN: 9781107445956
• ISBN: 978-1-107-44595-6
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; South America, Latin America, HISTORY / Latin America / General, c 1800 to c 1900, History of Art, Fashion & society, History of fashion, History of the Americas, The Americas, Fashion and textile design, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, C 1700 To C 1800, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Cultural studies: dress and society