Lecture: Stephanie Camp, "Debates on Black Beauty: Notes from the Mid-Nineteenth Century"
Monday, November 18, 4:45pm
Psych Auditorium
This event is open to the public.
When did black Americans begin to argue that black was beautiful? This talk explores some of the earliest documented discussions by black people about black beauty. In the mid-19th century, activist writers rebutted the widespread contempt for black bodies and argued that black people were (or could be) comely. But they did so in different ways and with varied implications about the nature of race and the possibilities for black progress.
Stephanie Camp is Associate Professor of History and the Donald W. Logan Family Endowed Chair in American History at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the author of Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South.
For more information, contact Margot Minardi and Caitlin Bergeon.
Submitted by Caitlin Bergeon.
Posted on Oct 29, 2013