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Black Venus 2010: They Called Her "Hottentot" by Deborah Willis

Black Venus 2010: They Called Her "Hottentot"

Deborah Willis
256 pages
Temple University Press
Jan 2010
Hardcover
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Discusses Sarah Baartman's life as an ethnographic specimen in the early nineteenth century, and assesses her representation as the "Hottentot Venus" in contemporary art and the broader issue of the historic display of black women in history.
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Pages 256
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Published 2010
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