Conjugal Union: The Body, the House, and the Black American

by Robert F. Reid-Pharr

This book argues that during the antebellum period a community of free black northeastern intellectuals sought to establish the stability of a Black American subjectivity by figuring the black body as the necessary antecedent to any intelligible Black American public presence. Reid-Pharr goes on to argue that the fact of the black body's constant and often spectacular display demonstrates an incredible uncertainty as to that body's status. Thus antebellum...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195104021
• ISBN13: 9780195104028
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"