Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910 by Daphne A. Brooks

Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910

Daphne A. Brooks

488 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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In Bodies in Dissent Daphne A. Brooks argues that from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, black transatlantic activists, actors, singers, and other entertainers frequently transformed the alienating conditions of social and politic...

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