Salamishah Tillet writes: "Ms. Union, who wrote of being raped at gunpoint when she is right to point out that black women who have been sexually assaulted have been silenced throughout America’s past and present. And yet, in a film about coming to terms with the nation’s founding sin of slavery, restoring Turner to his … Continue reading Tillet on How ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Silences Black Women | @NYTimes
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VIDEO: The Lapidus Center Presents Slavery and Memory x Whitney Plantation
This enlightening discussion will focus on memory, commemorations, and legacies of the slave trade and slavery, and feature panelists John Cummings and Ibrahima Seck of the Whitney Plantation and Museum; Columbia University professor Saidiya Hartman; architect Rodney Leon; and University of Pennsylvania professor Salamishah Tillett. This program is brought to you by the Lapidus Center … Continue reading VIDEO: The Lapidus Center Presents Slavery and Memory x Whitney Plantation
Penn Gazette Feature On Salamishah Tillet: Scholar, Teacher, Activist
"As an undergraduate at Penn in the 1990s, Salamishah Tillet C’96 experienced some of the best and very worst that a young person’s college years can offer. It was here that she made lasting friendships and found the inspiring classes and mentors that sparked her ambition to become a scholar and teacher herself. And … Continue reading Penn Gazette Feature On Salamishah Tillet: Scholar, Teacher, Activist
BOOK: Tillet on Slavery, Citizenship, and Racial Democracy
Salamisha Tillet. Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. via Duke University Press: "More than forty years after the major victories of the civil rights movement, African Americans have a vexed relation to the civic myth of the United States as the land of … Continue reading BOOK: Tillet on Slavery, Citizenship, and Racial Democracy
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