Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World

by Anna Arabindan-Kesson

In Black Bodies, White Gold Anna Arabindan-Kesson uses cotton, a commodity central to the slave trade and colonialism, as a focus for new interpretations of the way art, commerce, and colonialism were intertwined in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. In doing so, Arabindan-Kesson models an art historical approach that makes the histories of the Black diaspora central to nineteenth-century cultural production. She traces the emergence of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478014067
• ISBN13: 9781478014065
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"