Events

History of Women, Gender and Sexuality

Reproducing Race in the Early Americas

Rhae Lynn Barnes, Princeton University; Deirdre Cooper Owens, Queens College; Sasha Turner, Quinnipiac University
Moderator: Nicole Aljoe, Northeastern University
Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 5:30PM - 7:45PM

This roundtable will use the body as frame for examining racial formation in the Caribbean and U.S. from the eighteenth century to the present. The presenters will meditate on biological reproduction in relation to citizenship and subjecthood, labor and economy, medical and scientific knowledge, and representations of blackness in popular culture.

To RSVP: email seminars@masshist.org or call (617) 646-0579.

Location: Knafel Center, Radcliffe Institute