Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

Saidiya Hartman with Allyson Johnson (Narrator)

10 hours, 5 minutes first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history lgbtqia+ race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer rela...

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Moods

informative 85%
reflective 65%
challenging 58%
emotional 49%
inspiring 28%
sad 28%
dark 24%
hopeful 23%
adventurous 12%
tense 11%
funny 2%
mysterious 1%
relaxing 1%

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slow 48%
fast 2%

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