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Lenders to the ExhibitionForeword / Brian P. KennedyAcknowledgments / Barbara ThompsonIntroduction / Barbara Thompson Part I. Iconic Ideologies of Womanhood: African Cultural Perspectives1. The African Female Body in the Cultural Imagination / Barbara Thompson2. African Women's Body Images in Postcolonial Discourse and Resistance to Neo-Crusaders / Ifi Amadiume3. Les Parisiens d'Afrique: Mangbetu Women as Works of Art / Enid SchildkroutPlates Part II. Colonizing Black Women: The Western Imaginary4. The Black Female Body, the Postcard, and the Archives / Christraud Geary5. The Body of a Myth: Embodying the Black Mammy Figure in Visual Culture / Kimberly Wallace-SandersPlates Part III. Meaning and Identity: Personal Journeys into Black Womanhood6. Picturing the New Negro Woman / Deborah Willis7. The Women Who Posed: Maudelle Bass and Florence Allen / Carla Williams8. Housing and Homing the Black Female Body in France: Clixthe Beyala and the Legacy of Sarah Baartman and Josephine Backer / Ayo Abietou Coly9. Decolonizing Black Bodies: Personal Journeys in the Contemporary Voice / Barbara ThompsonPlates ArtistsContributorsBibliographyIndex