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- Book Title
- Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic
- ISBN
- 9780812252385
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812252381
ISBN-13
9780812252385
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15038428278
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Wicked Flesh : Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
Subject
United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), African American
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History
Series
Early American Studies
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2020-006553
Reviews
A beautifully written history of Black Feminism...Although it is centered on Senegambia, Wicked Flesh inspires us to ask what a history of New Orleans--or Tampico or Galveston, for that matter--would look like if we were to follow the cultural threads of Black women's care practices to other parts of the Atlantic World. The book is itself 'a promiscuous accounting of blackness ... as future possibility' and employs the same ethics of care and pleasure that its narrative brings to life., Through innovative and interdisciplinary methodologies, Johnson unearths and beautifully recounts a history of freedom that foregrounds the intimate lives of African women and women ofAfricandescent...Put simply, Wicked Flesh is essential reading for those interested in the intimate lives of enslaved and free Black women and invested in understanding these women's theories and texts for living., "Jessica Marie Johnson has an original, bold historical imagination, a gift for excavating and exploiting fragmentary archival material, and a beautiful, poetic writing style. Both her argument and her theoretical approach are important and timely."--Emily Clark, author of The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World, Wicked Flesh is a long overdue, marvelous account of the complexities of Black women's lives in the Atlantic World. This compelling history shows the importance of Black femmes in the making and unmaking of the Atlantic World, creating changes that last until this day., Wicked Flesh is a long overdue, marvelous account of the complexities of Black women's lives in the Atlantic World. This compelling history shows the importance of Black femmes in the making and unmaking of the Atlantic World, creating changes that last until this day., Wicked Flesh provides us with a complex, dynamic picture of enslaved women's lives that moves beyond simple tropes of 'agency' in pursuit of an abstract, Western-defined 'freedom.' As Johnson's analysis shows, Black women defined freedom in their own ways that went beyond formal manumission or 'free status.' Wicked Flesh is an important book that has already garnered well-deserved recognition and will be required reading for scholars of Black life for years to come., Wicked Flesh is a powerful book that will set the standard for studies of gender and slavery to follow. It exemplifies the generative quality of a grounded engagement of the archives of slavery through contemporary theoretical work on race and the notion of Diaspora., Johnson pushes readers to expand their thinking surrounding the lived experiences of free women of African descent in the French Atlantic during the long eighteenth century...[A]n impressive work. Wicked Flesh is a welcome and much-needed addition to numerous fields of scholarship, including the French Atlantic, the African diaspora, Black women's history,and comparative history. The study is as revelatory as it is impressive in its scope, analysis, and historical detective work., With its deep archival research and compelling analysis, Wicked Flesh paints fascinating portraits of individual women and their efforts to practice freedom and firmly situates New Orleans within the larger French Atlantic world., Wicked Flesh provides us with a complex, dynamic picture of enslaved women's lives that moves beyond simple tropes of 'agency' in pursuit of an abstract, Western-defined 'freedom.' As Johnson's analysis shows, Black women defined freedom in their own ways that went beyond formal manumission or 'free status.' Wicked Flesh is an important book that has already garnered well-deserved recognition and will be required reading for scholars of Black life for years to come., " Wicked Flesh focuses on a practice that has defined Black womanhood for centuries: the way that Black women have created alternative forms of kinship and structured intimacy as a practice of freedom, in opposition to white-supremacist narratives about our inherent wickedness . . . Johnson's work is an archival tour de force. The book incorporates the French and Spanish colonial paper trail of Louisiana's tumultuous 18th century (first under French rule, then Spanish, then French again). The book ends with the dawn of US rule."-- Public Books, " Wicked Flesh is a powerful book that will set the standard for studies of gender and slavery to follow. It exemplifies the generative quality of a grounded engagement of the archives of slavery through contemporary theoretical work on race and the notion of Diaspora."--Jennifer Morgan, author of Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in the Making of New World Slavery, A careful and innovative scholar, Johnson remains attentive to her subjects' social, embodied, and spiritual worlds to dazzling effect. If the many merits of Wicked Flesh serve as any indication, the conjunction of race, gender, intimacy, and kinship in colonial contexts will continue to inspire innovative scholarship for some time to come., Wicked Flesh is a powerful book that will set the standard for studies of gender and slavery to follow. It exemplifies the generative quality of a grounded engagement of the archives of slavery through contemporary theoretical work on race and the notion of Diaspora., Johnson pushes readers to expand their thinking surrounding the lived experiences of free women of African descent in the French Atlantic during the long eighteenth century...[A]n impressive work. Wicked Flesh is a welcome and much-needed addition to numerous fields of scholarship, including the French Atlantic, the African diaspora, Black women's history,and comparative history. The study is as revelatory as it is impressive in its scope, analysis, and historical detective work. , Drawing on an impressive range of archival sources, there are many useful insights in this book, which transcends some of the geographic and chronological limits of historical subfields. One hopes other historians will adapt the arguments and ideas related to kinship and freedom developed by Johnson in future studies of slavery and freedom in the Atlantic world., Through innovative and interdisciplinary methodologies, Johnson unearths and beautifully recounts a history of freedom that foregrounds the intimate lives of African women and women of African descent...Put simply, Wicked Flesh is essential reading for those interested in the intimate lives of enslaved and free Black women and invested in understanding these women's theories and texts for living., Jessica Marie Johnson has an original, bold historical imagination, a gift for excavating and exploiting fragmentary archival material, and a beautiful, poetic writing style. Both her argument and her theoretical approach are important and timely., Johnson's in-depth research, storytelling, and conceptualization show how Black women used their bodies, intimate connections, and kinship networks to protect their freedom, obtain manumission, and carve new spaces of freedom for themselves. Very accessible and readable...Johnson's book also contributes to the historiography of the French slave trade and Louisiana, of Black women's experience of empire and colonial society, but it also puts forth concepts such as null value and Black femme freedom that might inspire historians of marginalized and Black lives in other eras and geographies., "With its deep archival research and compelling analysis, Wicked Flesh paints fascinating portraits of individual women and their efforts to practice freedom and firmly situates New Orleans within the larger French Atlantic world."--Jennifer Spear, author of Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
305.48896073
Table Of Content
Introduction. The Women in the Water Chapter 1. Tastemakers: Intimacy, Slavery, and Power in Senegambia Chapter 2. Born of This Place: Kinship, Violence, and the Pinets' Overlapping Diasporas Chapter 3. La Traversée : Gender, Commodification, and the Long Middle Passage Chapter 4. Full Use of Her: Intimacy, Service, and Labor in New Orleans Chapter 5. Black Femme Acts, Archives, and Archipelagos of Freedom Chapter 6. Life After Death: Legacies of Freedom in Spanish New Orleans Conclusion. Femmes de Couleur Libres and the Nineteenth Century List of Archives and Databases Notes Index Acknowledgments
Synopsis
Unearthing personal stories from the archive, Wicked Flesh shows how black women, from Senegambia in West Africa to the Caribbean to New Orleans, used intimacy and kinship to redefine freedom in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Their practices laid the groundwork for the emancipation struggles of the nineteenth century., The story of freedom and all of its ambiguities begins with intimate acts steeped in power. It is shaped by the peculiar oppressions faced by African women and women of African descent. And it pivots on the self-conscious choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and selves, their loved ones, and their futures. Slavery's rise in the Americas was institutional, carnal, and reproductive. The intimacy of bondage whet the appetites of slaveowners, traders, and colonial officials with fantasies of domination that trickled into every social relationship--husband and wife, sovereign and subject, master and laborer. Intimacy--corporeal, carnal, quotidian--tied slaves to slaveowners, women of African descent and their children to European and African men. In Wicked Flesh , Jessica Marie Johnson explores the nature of these complicated intimate and kinship ties and how they were used by black women to construct freedom in the Atlantic world. Johnson draws on archival documents scattered in institutions across three continents, written in multiple languages and largely from the perspective of colonial officials and slave-owning men, to recreate black women's experiences from coastal Senegal to French Saint-Domingue to Spanish Cuba to the swampy outposts of the Gulf Coast. Centering New Orleans as the quintessential site for investigating black women's practices of freedom in the Atlantic world, Wicked Flesh argues that African women and women of African descent endowed free status with meaning through active, aggressive, and sometimes unsuccessful intimate and kinship practices. Their stories, in both their successes and their failures, outline a practice of freedom that laid the groundwork for the emancipation struggles of the nineteenth century and reshaped the New World., The story of freedom pivots on the choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and selves, their loved ones, and their futures. The story of freedom and all of its ambiguities begins with intimate acts steeped in power. It is shaped by the peculiar oppressions faced by African women and women of African descent. And it pivots on the self-conscious choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and selves, their loved ones, and their futures. Slavery's rise in the Americas was institutional, carnal, and reproductive. The intimacy of bondage whet the appetites of slaveowners, traders, and colonial officials with fantasies of domination that trickled into every social relationship--husband and wife, sovereign and subject, master and laborer. Intimacy--corporeal, carnal, quotidian--tied slaves to slaveowners, women of African descent and their children to European and African men. In Wicked Flesh , Jessica Marie Johnson explores the nature of these complicated intimate and kinship ties and how they were used by black women to construct freedom in the Atlantic world. Johnson draws on archival documents scattered in institutions across three continents, written in multiple languages and largely from the perspective of colonial officials and slave-owning men, to recreate black women's experiences from coastal Senegal to French Saint-Domingue to Spanish Cuba to the swampy outposts of the Gulf Coast. Centering New Orleans as the quintessential site for investigating black women's practices of freedom in the Atlantic world, Wicked Flesh argues that African women and women of African descent endowed free status with meaning through active, aggressive, and sometimes unsuccessful intimate and kinship practices. Their stories, in both their successes and their failures, outline a practice of freedom that laid the groundwork for the emancipation struggles of the nineteenth century and reshaped the New World.
LC Classification Number
F379.N59N44427 2020
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