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Jennifer Morgan
VIDEO/CONF: Scenes at 20 – Inspirations, Riffs, and Reverberations
This symposium celebrates the 20th anniversary of Saidiya Hartman’s Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America and its impact on studies of Black lives in the past, present, and future. Please join us as we consider the work’s impact within its intergenerational intellectual context and theorize new possibilities for Black life and Black freedom in … Continue reading VIDEO/CONF: Scenes at 20 – Inspirations, Riffs, and Reverberations
ARTICLES: Connolly and Fuentes Co-Edit Special Issue on Archives of Slavery
Scholars of slavery engage history, archives, Saidiya Hartman, and violence, in a recent History of the Present. From the introduction by Brian Connolly and Marisa Fuentes: "This special issue of the journal asks how the violence of the archives of slavery contributes to the production of a history of our present. What is at stake in … Continue reading ARTICLES: Connolly and Fuentes Co-Edit Special Issue on Archives of Slavery
Morgan on Thinking with Black Marxism | @AAIHS
Jennifer Morgan discusses Cedric Robinson's work on Black Marxism and its relationship to histories of slavery at AAIHS: "Robinson’s work on the early Modern black Atlantic (though he didn’t name it as such) is a crucial provocation to contemporary scholars—and one that is, to some degree, being taken up. In the past ten years, the … Continue reading Morgan on Thinking with Black Marxism | @AAIHS
ARTICLE: Morgan on Race and Gender in the History of the Early Republic
Jennifer L. Morgan, “Periodization Problems: Race and Gender in the History of the Early Republic.” Journal of the Early Republic 36, no. 2 (2016): 351–57. Morgan writes: "The invitation to participate in a roundtable discussion on the early republic produced some confusion—what did I know about the history of African American women in the early … Continue reading ARTICLE: Morgan on Race and Gender in the History of the Early Republic
VIDEO: Morgan, ‘Partus Sequitur Ventrem’: Law and Re/Production for Enslaved Women
Keynote Address by Professor Jennifer Morgan, New York University to the conference Pregnancy, Childbearing and Infant Care: Historical Perspectives from Slave and Non-Slave Societies
ARTICLE/JOURNAL/DIGITAL: Social Text Special Issue on Slavery, Freedom, and the Archive
Special Issue of Social Text (33:4, 2015) on "The Question of Recovery: Slavery, Freedom, and the Archive," including a roundtable on slavery, mapping, and the digital humanities. Guest edited by Laura Helton, Justin Leroy, Max A. Mishler, Samantha Seeley, and Shauna Sweeney Articles Helton, Laura, Justin Leroy, Max A. Mishler, Samantha Seeley, and Shauna Sweeney. … Continue reading ARTICLE/JOURNAL/DIGITAL: Social Text Special Issue on Slavery, Freedom, and the Archive
PODCAST: Morgan on Researching Slavery | Doing History
"How did enslaved African and African American women experience slavery? What were their daily lives like? And how do historians know as much as they do about enslaved women? Today, we explore the answers to these questions with Jennifer L. Morgan, a Professor of History and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University … Continue reading PODCAST: Morgan on Researching Slavery | Doing History
Berry and Morgan: #Blacklivesmatter Till They Don’t: Slavery’s Lasting Legacy
"We live in a nation that has yet to grapple with the history of slavery and its afterlife." - Daina Ramey Berry and Jennifer L. Morgan In an essay for The American Prospect, slavery scholars Daina Ramey Berry and Jennifer L. Morgan place #blacklivesmatter protests around the world in context with "the historical value of … Continue reading Berry and Morgan: #Blacklivesmatter Till They Don’t: Slavery’s Lasting Legacy
Women of Color and Slavery in the United States
In the summer of 2007, the Journal of Women's History (19:2) published a roundtable on "The History of Women and Slavery: Considering the Impact of Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South on the Twentieth Anniversary of Its Publication." According to the "Introduction" by Jennifer L. Morgan, the roundtable was originally a … Continue reading Women of Color and Slavery in the United States
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