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Disfigured Images : The Historical Assault on Afro-American Women (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)
Disfigured Images The Historical Assault on AfroAmerican Women - Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies Author:Patricia Morton, Patricia Morton "Much of the material unearthed by this book is ugly," writes Morton whose ten chapters expose a multitude of "profoundly dehumanizing constructions of reality embedded" in American scholarly studies of the history of the Afro-American woman. Disfigured Images explores the "literature of fact" concerning black women during a century of American ... more »historiography extending from the late 19th century to the present and finds a body of work that "presented little fact and much fiction." The volume is a long-needed refutation of a caricatured, mythical version of Black women's history.« less