haven't seen it yet, but...

I was excited to get this from Amazon. I have an essay in this volume and work in the accompanying exhibition, which just opened.

Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo) by Barbara Thompson (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo) will be released on April 1, 2008. You can pre-order yours at a savings of $18.50 by following the link below.

Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo) Barbara Thompson List Price: $50.00 Price: $31.50 You Save: $18.50 (37%) Release Date: April 1, 2008

Book Description
Explorations of contemporary art have focused on issues of identity and race for some time. Few, however, have sought to investigate these themes by juxtaposing historical and contemporary frameworks. Black Womanhood examines an especially charged icon - the black female body - and contemporary artists' interventions upon historical images of black women as exotic Others, erotic fantasies, and supermaternal Mammies.

This book presents icons of the black female body as seen from three separate but intersecting perspectives: the traditional African, the colonial, and the contemporary global. The display and contemplation of such iconic images addresses complex and often competing forces of self-presentation and the representation ... Read more