Hartman narrates the story of this radical social transformation against the grain of the prevailing century-old argument about the crisis of the black family. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs about courtship, love, and marriage. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. The socialist delivers a lecture on free love.The anarchy of colored girls assembled in a riotous manner.Wayward : a short entry on the possible.Family albums, aborted future : a disillusioned wife becomes an artist, 1890 Seventh Avenue. Mistah beauty, the autobiography of an ex-colored woman, select scenes from a film never cast by Oscar Micheaux Harlem, 1920s.1909 : 601 West 61st Street : a new colony of colored people, or Malindy in Little Africa.1900 : the tenderloin : 242 West 41st Street.In a moment of tenderness the future seems possible.An intimate history of slavery and freedom.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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