Readings in Black Geographies

October 21, 2008 in Angel David Nieves, Babacar M'Bow, Carl H. Nightingale, Carole Boyce Davies, Clyde Woods, James A. Tyner, Jenny Burman, Katherine McKittrick, Kimberly N. Ruffin, Kofi Annan, Peter James Hudson, Rinaldo Walcott, Sonjah Stanley Niaah, Stephanie M. H. Camp, Suzette A. Spencer

Carl H. Nightingale.  “Before Race Mattered: Geographies of the Color Line in Early Colonial Madras and New York.” The American Historical Review 113, no. 1 (February 1, 2008): 48-71. First paragraph: By the 1710s, British authorities at both Madras, India, and New York City had made, by fits and starts, more than a half-century of [...]

Women of Color and Slavery in the United States

February 16, 2008 in Barbara Krauthamer, Daina Ramey Berry, Deboray Gray White, Jennifer Morgan, Jessica Millward, Leslie M. Harris, Stephanie M. H. Camp
Tags: scholarship

In the summer of 2007, the Journal of Women’s History (19:2) published a roundtable on “The History of Women and Slavery: Considering the Impact of Ar’n’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South on the Twentieth Anniversary of Its Publication.” According to the “Introduction” by Jennifer L. Morgan, the roundtable was originally a [...]