Historians discuss recent scholarship on Black women's experiences with racial violence
The new season of the Schomburg Center's Conversations in Black Freedom Studies series, begins with this virtual conversation between Drs. Keisha Blain, Erica R. Edwards, and Treva Lindsey, whose books explore the violence that has shaped the lives of Black women and girls in the United States. The conversation will center around how Black women have long fought back– organizing against disfranchisement, economic precarity, the carceral state and US empire —using everything from Black feminist analysis to Fannie’ Lou Hamer’s grassroots mobilizing to BLM organizing to demand racial justice. CBFS organizers Jeanne Theoharis and Robyn Spencer will host the discussion.
THE SPEAKERS
Dr. Keisha N. Blain, a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow and Class of 2022 Carnegie Fellow, is an award-winning historian of the 20th century United States with broad interests and specializations in African American History, the modern African Diaspora, and Women’s and Gender Studies. She completed a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University in 2014
Dr. Erica R. Edwards is Professor of African American Studies and English at Yale University. She is the author of The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of U.S. Empire (NYU Press, 2021), which was a finalist for the Prose Award from the Association of American Publishers and the annual book prize from the Association of African American Life and History.
Dr. Treva Lindsey specializes in African American women’s history, black popular and expressive culture, black feminism(s), hip hop studies, critical race and gender theory, and sexual politics.
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