Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture by Janell Hobson

Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture

Janell Hobson

226 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

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In this second edition of the remarkable, and now classic, cultural history of black women's beauty, Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson explores the enduring figure of the "Hottentot Venus" and the history of critical and artistic responses to her b...

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