EPISODE · Dec 13, 2023 · 45 MIN
Episode 45 – Hemings, Baartman and Complicated Fame with Samantha Pinto
from Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast · host Heights Libraries
Professor Samantha Pinto discusses her book, Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights. Using the idea of “vulnerability” as a touchstone to explain the celebrity of Sally Hemings and Sarah “the Hottentot Venus” Baartman, Prof. Pinto describes how each woman’s agency is complicated by dominant systems of coercion and violence. Sally […]
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Professor Samantha Pinto discusses her book, Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights. Using the idea of “vulnerability” as a touchstone to explain the celebrity of Sally Hemings and Sarah “the Hottentot Venus” Baartman, Prof. Pinto describes how each woman’s agency is complicated by dominant systems of coercion and violence. Sally […]
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