It takes the average reader 2 hours and 53 minutes to read Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered by Elyse Nelson
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A critical reexamination of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's bust Why Born Enslaved!, this book unpacks the sculpture's engagement with—and defiance of—an antislavery discourse. In this clear-eyed look at the Black figure in nineteenth-century sculpture, noted art historians and writers discuss how emerging categories of racial difference propagated by the scientific field of ethnography grew in popularity alongside a crescendo in cultural production in France during the Second Empire. By comparing Carpeaux's bust Why Born Enslaved! to works by his contemporaries on both sides of the Atlantic, as...
Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered by Elyse Nelson is 172 pages long, and a total of 43,344 words.
This makes it 58% the length of the average book. It also has 53% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 56 minutes to read Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered aloud.
Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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