Sex & Slavery Lab events continue for Fall 2018. On September 25, the Sex & Slavery Lab hosted Dr. LaMonda Horton Stallings for a discussion of Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Se… Source: Dr. LaMonda Horton Stallings Visits Sex & Slavery Lab at Johns Hopkins University – Sex & Slavery Lab
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Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens Visits the Sex & Slavery Lab at Johns Hopkins University – Sex & Slavery Lab
The Sex and Slavery Lab launched for fall 2018 with its first speaker, Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens (Queens College, City University of New York. Cooper Owens visited campus September 18-20th as a guest of… Source: Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens Visits the Sex & Slavery Lab at Johns Hopkins University – Sex & Slavery Lab
Fall 2018 Sex and Slavery Lab @JohnsHopkins
First guest: Deirdre Cooper Owens (Queens College, CUNY) (co-sponsored with the Program in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology) Full schedule:
A Storify: Tweets from #UnboundJHU held at JHU March 8-9, 2018
Click here for tweets from #unboundJHU held at Johns Hopkins University, March 8-9, 2018. This conference was sponsored by the Center for Africana Studies and co-organized by Katrina Bell McDonald, Tera Jordan, and Jessica Marie Johnson. For more: http://bit.ly/unboundjhu (Storify compiled by @jmjafrx) Featured Image: Tera Hunter, Professor of History at Princeton University and author … Continue reading A Storify: Tweets from #UnboundJHU held at JHU March 8-9, 2018
EVENT/BLOGROLL: This Week: @jmjafrx Launches Sex & Slavery Lab #unboundJHU
The Sex and Slavery Lab launches this week with a series event as part of #unboundJHU. Learn more about the events here: http://ssl.adphd.org/ The Sex & Slavery Lab brings scholars knowledgeable about the ways race, sex, histories of slavery, violence, and resistance have intersected in the lives of straight, queer, cis, and trans women and … Continue reading EVENT/BLOGROLL: This Week: @jmjafrx Launches Sex & Slavery Lab #unboundJHU
BOOK: Carrasquillo on Race and Citizenship in Puerto Rico
Rosa E. Carrasquillo, Our Landless Patria: Marginal Citizenship and Race in Caguas, Puerto Rico, 1880-1910. U of Nebraska Press, 2006. via U of Nebraska Press: "Our Landless Patria examines issues of race and citizenship in Puerto Rico, tracing how the process of land privatization accelerated a series of struggles for natural resources between the poorest … Continue reading BOOK: Carrasquillo on Race and Citizenship in Puerto Rico
BOOK: Stark on Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico
David M. Stark, Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015. "Scholarship on slavery in the Caribbean frequently emphasizes sugar and tobacco production, but this unique work illustrates the importance of the region’s hato economy--a combination of livestock ranching, foodstuff cultivation, and timber harvesting--on the living patterns among … Continue reading BOOK: Stark on Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico
DIGITAL: Digital Aponte – Writing, Painting, and Making Freedom in the African Diaspora
Ada Ferrer, Linda Rodriguez launch Digital Aponte: "Welcome to Digital Aponte, a site dedicated to the life and work of José Antonio Aponte, a free man of color, carpenter, artist, and alleged leader of a massive antislavery conspiracy and rebellion in colonial Cuba in 1811-1812. Aponte was also the creator of an unusual work of … Continue reading DIGITAL: Digital Aponte – Writing, Painting, and Making Freedom in the African Diaspora
BOOK: Rodríguez-Silva on Race and Blackness in Puerto Rico
I. Rodríguez-Silva, Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico. PAlgrave-McMillan, 2012. via Palgrave: "Silencing Race provides a historical analysis of the construction of silences surrounding issues of racial inequality, violence, and discrimination in Puerto Rico. Examining the ongoing racialization of Puerto Rican workers, it explores the 'class-making' of race." Source: … Continue reading BOOK: Rodríguez-Silva on Race and Blackness in Puerto Rico
DIGITAL/CONF: Story Map for Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities
Moya Bailey, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Jessica Marie Johnson, Liz Losh, Marisa Parham, and more present at the OIEAHC/Equality Lab conference Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities, October 26-28, 2017. Johnson writes: "We’ve got a map!!! Thank you Liz Losh and the team at the Equality Lab for this really amazing visualization of our DH work. … Continue reading DIGITAL/CONF: Story Map for Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities
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