Black Venus: African Women in 19th Century France with Dr. Robin Mitchell
The French History Podcast · Evergreen Podcasts
January 25, 202051m 28sExplicit
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Show Notes
In this special episode, I interview Dr. Robin Mitchell on her new book Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France. We talk about three African women, Ourika, Sarah Baartmann and Jeanne Duval, and how each women reflected and embodied different anxieties felt by France in its tumultuous 19th century.
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