Introduction: Toward a Black feminist art history
Pt. I. Artists, environs, aesthetics
Dismembering the flock : difference and the "lady-artists"
"Taste" and the practices of cultural tourism : vision, proximity, and commemoration
"So pure and celestial a light" : sculpture, marble, and whiteness as a privileged racial signifier
Pt. II. From slavery to freedom
White slaves and Black masters : appropriation and disavowal in Hiram Powers's Greek slave
The color of slavery : degrees of blackness and the bodies of female slaves
Racing the body : reading blackness in William Wetmore Story's Cleopatra
The Black queen in the White body : Edmonia Lewis and the dead queen
Conclusion: Neoclassicism and the politics of race.
