The African Lookbook A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women

Catherine E. McKinley, Jacqueline Woodson, Edwidge Danticat

eBook - 2021

Winner of the African Photobook of the Year AwardA Choice Outstanding Title of the YearA USA Today "Must-Read for Black History Month"An NPR "Goats and Soda" Editors' PickA BookRiot Favorite Nonfiction Book of the YearAn unprecedented visual history of African women told in striking and subversive historical photographs-featuring an Introduction by Edwidge Danticat and a Foreword by Jacqueline Woodson.Most of us grew up with images of African women that were purely anthropological-bright displays of exotica where the deeper personhood seemed tucked away. Or they were chronicles of war and poverty-"poverty porn." But now, curator Catherine E. McKinley draws on her extensive collection of historical and cont...emporary photos to present a visual history spanning a hundred-year arc (1870–1970) of what is among the earliest... more