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

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.0

A solid read that had to rate because history is history. I'm rating based on the pacing and writing style, not on the content.

I really enjoyed reading through history from this perspective. It's written in an anthology style with some threads of following the same folks through several chapters. It can be repetitive in sections some chapters are harder to read than others. I questioned who the target audience was several times throughout. After reading some background I figured out that I am not the target audience which is why I didn't enjoy the way it was written several times. 

Would recommend it for folks easing into nonfiction or anyone who hasn't experienced US history through the nonWhite lens.