Dr Rochelle Rowe is a Lecturer in Black British History at Edinburgh University. Rochelle’s work focuses on race, gender, and the body, histories of the Caribbean and Black Britain. Her first book, Imagining Caribbean Womanhood, tells a feminist history of Black beauty spanning the Caribbean, Harlem and postwar London and is published by Manchester University Press. Her next work, to be published in a multi-volume collection by Bloomsbury, The Cultural History of Beauty, explores black Victorian women and beauty in the age of empire.
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