Second Skin: Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface by Anne Anlin Cheng

Second Skin: Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface

Anne Anlin Cheng

234 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction reference challenging informative slow-paced
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Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. Stepping outside of ...

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