Fictions of Emancipation
Nelson, Elyse / Walters, Wendy S.![Fictions of Emancipation](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/371/37113733/CHSBZCOP0337113733.jpg)
This critical reexamination of Carpeaux's bust Why Born Enslaved! and other nineteenth-century antislavery images interrogates the treatment of the Black figure as a malleable political symbol and locus of exoticized beauty.