Jacqueline Woodson
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xxv, 207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
McKinley draws on her extensive collection of historical and contemporary photos to present a visual history of African women across centuries. These images tell how deeply cosmopolitan and modern they are in their style; how they were able to reclaim the tools of the colonial oppression that threatened their selfhood and livelihoods. She shows that, while African studios captured the dignity, austerity, and grandeur of African women, photos by Europeans...