“The politics of respectability” remains an organizing principle for understanding black women’s lives. How has respectability insisted on its relevance as an interpretive tool in historical studies? What is the current state of the field of histories of black women and girls?

Opening remarks by Françoise Hamlin, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History, Brown University.

SPEAKERS
4:40 Dayo Gore, Associate Professor & Chair of Ethnic Studies and Critical Gender Studies, University of California, San Diego
28:00 Ashley Farmer, Assistant Professor of History, The University of Texas at Austin
47:35 Brandon M. Terry, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of Social Studies, Harvard University
1:09:09 Discussant: Martha S. Jones, Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University

Conference: "R-E-S-P-E-C-T-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y: Black Women’s Studies since Righteous Discontent” at Brown University, September 20, 2019. Hosted by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University. Co-sponsored by the Workshop for WOC Feminisms at Brown, Department of American Studies, Department of History, Department of Africana Studies, and the Pembroke Center.

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