Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
Author
Saidiya Hartman
Content
xxi + 441 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2019
Publisher
New York: W. W. Norton
Publication notes
Alternate subtitle: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals Winner of the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
Description
Mixes social history with biography to portray young African American women in New York and Philadelphia between 1890 and 1935.
Main subject
Autobiography and Biography History Sexuality Sociology and Social Issues
Hartman, Saidiya. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. New York: W. W. Norton, 2019. Sylvia. Accessed June 18, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1599.
