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Saidiya Hartman (born 1961) is an American academic and writer focusing on African-American studies. She is currently a professor at Columbia University in their English department. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Her work focuses on African-American literature , cultural history, photography and ethics, and the intersections of law and literature.
As Saidiya Hartman states, "As Missouri v. Celia demonstrated, the enslaved could neither give nor refuse consent, nor offer reasonable resistance, yet they were criminally responsible and liable. The slave was recognized as a reasoning subject, who possessed intent and rationality, solely in the context of criminal liability." [46]
The subtitle, "Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity" nods to Saidiya Hartman’s Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-making in Nineteenth Century America. [3] The work pays homage to not just Saidiya, and not just Hortense, in fact not any singular "I" understood within a Cartesian " Cogito ergo sum " that would subordinate the ...
As such it has been republished by the Louisiana State University with an introduction by John Hope Franklin in 1970, [9] and by Oxford University with an introduction by Saidiya Hartman in 2014. The Oxford edition was part of a project to republish Du Bois's major works as a series and it includes the series introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr .
More than 150 years after slaves were freed in the U.S., voters in five states will soon decide whether to close loopholes that led to the proliferation of a different form of slavery — forced ...
The first chapter of this text has also been mobilized in several major texts that have become foundational texts in contemporary Black studies: Hortense Spillers in her article "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book” (1987); Saidiya Hartman in her book Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century ...
Afro-pessimism is a critical framework that describes the ongoing effects of racism, colonialism, and historical processes of enslavement in the United States, including the transatlantic slave trade and their impact on structural conditions as well as the personal, subjective, and lived experience and embodied reality of African Americans; it is particularly applicable to U.S. contexts.
Amanda Palmer, ex-wife of Neil Gaiman, is speaking out after she was named in a sexual assault lawsuit filed against the British author.. Palmer, a singer-songwriter known for her work in the duo ...