Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals

Saidiya Hartman

416 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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What was the fate of the first generations of black women born after abolition in America? Struggle: to create autonomous and beautiful lives, to escape new forms of servitude, and to live as if they really were free. This book recreates the radic...

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informative 83%
reflective 64%
challenging 61%
emotional 53%
sad 27%
dark 25%
inspiring 24%
hopeful 19%
tense 13%
adventurous 12%
funny 1%
mysterious 1%

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fast 3%

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