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. "A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. The socialist delivers a lecture on free love The anarchy of colored girls assembled in a riotous manner Mistah beauty, the autobiography of an ex-colored woman, select scenes from a film never cast by Oscar Micheaux, Harlem, 1920sįamily albums, aborted futures : a disillusioned wife becomes an artist, 1890 Seventh Avenueīook Three. A new colony of colored people, or Malindy in Little Africa In a moment of tenderness the future seems possibleīook Two. The terrible beauty of the slumĪn intimate history of slavery and freedom
She makes an errant path through the city. Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-418) and index.īook One. Wayward lives, beautiful experiments : intimate histories of social upheaval / Saidiya Hartman. Request This Author Hartman, Saidiya V., author.
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