What We're Reading: How Florestine Perrault Collins Challenged Gender and Racial Roles with a Camera
Above: from Florestine Perrault Collins’s self-portrait
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Florestine Perrault Collins died 35 years ago, at age 103, having left behind a legacy of work that, as the Encyclopedia of Louisiana puts it, “mirrored a complicated interplay of gender, racial and class expectations.”
At Jstor Daily, Brooklyn-based writer Ashawnta Jackson …