Interesting that the black woman is still made up like a "respectable" European in terms of clothes and hairstyle; presumably that is to reinforce the 'moral' message of the bedevilled as a 'mirror image' but still rather rare, no? Anyways gives me an excuse to share this brilliant article from December that I'm still talking about: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n22/fara-dabhoiwala/a-man-of-parts-and-learning
Interesting that the black woman is still made up like a "respectable" European in terms of clothes and hairstyle; presumably that is to reinforce the 'moral' message of the bedevilled as a 'mirror image' but still rather rare, no? Anyways gives me an excuse to share this brilliant article from December that I'm still talking about: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n22/fara-dabhoiwala/a-man-of-parts-and-learning
Yes, very definitely rare. And thanks for sharing that link, I’ll check it out!
I finally got around to reading the article about Francis Williams - amazing! Thank you for sharing it - what a story, and what a man!