SOURCE: “Effaced into Flesh: Black Women's Subjectivity,” in On Your Left: The New Historical Materialism in the 1990's, edited by Ann Kibbey, Thomas Foster, Carol Siegel, and Ellen Berry, New York University Press, 1996, pp. 184–205.
In the following essay, Brody dwells on the image of the black female in “The Winding Sheet,” applying black feminist theory to concepts of race and gender.
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