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  • Dispossessed Lives

    Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive

    by Marisa J. Fuentes ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only briefly in historical records. Fuentes takes us through the streets of Bridgetown with an enslaved runaway; inside a brothel run by a freed woman of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Dispossessed Lives

    Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive

    by Marisa J. Fuentes ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only briefly in historical records. Fuentes takes us through the streets of Bridgetown with an enslaved runaway; inside a brothel run by a freed woman of ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Scenes of Subjection

    Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Saidiya Hartman, Marisa J. Fuentes, Sarah Haley, Cameron Rowland, Torkwase Dyson ...
    The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated.Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sexuality and Slavery

    Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas

    by Trevor Burnard, Stephanie M. H. Camp, David Doddington, Jim Downs, Thomas A. Foster, Marisa Fuentes, Stephanie Jones-Rogers, Jessica Millward, Bianca Premo, Brenda Stevenson ...
    Series series
    In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South America). While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of slavery, Berry and Harris argue here that sexual intimacy constituted a core ... Read more

    $124.99 CAD

  • Scarlet and Black, Volume Two

    Constructing Race and Gender at Rutgers, 1865-1945

    by Beatrice J. Adams, Shauni Armstead, Miya Carey, Tracey Johnson, Brenann Sutter, Pamela N. Walker, Meagan Wierda, Caitlin Reed Wiesner, Shari Cunningham, Eri Kitada, Jerrad P Pacatte, Joseph Williams ...
    The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black, Volume 2, continues to document the history of Rutgers’s connection to slavery, which was ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Scarlet and Black, Volume Three

    Making Black Lives Matter at Rutgers, 1945-2020

    by Roberto C. Orozco, Carie Rael, Brooke A. Thomas, Ian Gavigan, Pamela N. Walker, Joseph Williams, Kaisha Esty, Whitney Fields, Beatrice J. Adams, Jesse Bayker, Kenneth Morrissey, Edward White, Tracey Johnson, Joseph Kaplan, Meagan Wierda, Lynda Dexheimer ...
    The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black, Volume Three, concludes this groundbreaking documentation of the history of Rutgers’s ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Public Catastrophes, Private Losses

    by Naomi Klein, Marisa J. Fuentes, Christina Sharpe, Michelle Commander, Jennifer Flynn Walker, Bela August Walker, Marcia Gallo0, Carmen Vázquez1, Kathleen C. Riley2, Smruthi Bala Kannan3, Stacy S. Klein4, Ellen Malenas Ledoux5, Basuli Deb6, Leslye Amede Obiora7 ...
    Series series The Feminist Bookshelf: Ideas for the 21st Century
    From COVID to climate-change-induced wildfires and hurricanes, we live in an era when catastrophes have become the new normal. But even though these events affect us all, some members of society are more vulnerable to harm than others.This essay collection explores how the definition of catastrophe might be expanded to include many forms of large-scale structural violence on communities, species, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • The Delectable Negro

    Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture

    by Vincent Woodard, Dwight McBride, Justin A Joyce, E. Patrick Johnson ...
    Series Book 34 - Sexual Cultures
    A groundbreaking study of the connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in American literature and US slave culture.Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Slavery and the American South

    Edited by Winthrop D. Jordan ...
    In 1900 very few historians were exploring the institution of slavery in the South. But in the next half century, the culture of slavery became a dominating theme in Southern historiography. In the 1970s it was the subject of the first Chancellor's Symposium in Southern History held at the University of Mississippi. Since then, scholarly interest in slavery has proliferated ever more widely. In ... Read more

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  • Impossible Witnesses

    Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony

    by Dwight McBride ...
    Even the most cursory review of black literary production during the nineteenth century indicates that its primary concerns were the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. How did the writers of these narratives "bear witness" to the experiences they describe? At a time when a hegemonic discourse on these subjects already existed, what did it mean to "tell the ... Read more

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  • A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass

    by Neil Roberts ...
    Series series Political Companions to Great American Authors
    "A splendid opportunity to rethink Douglass's political thought . . . relevant today given the discourse of white nationalism in the United States." — ChoiceFrederick Douglass was a writer and public speaker whose impact on America has been long studied by historians and literary critics. Yet as political theorists have focused on the legacies of such notables as W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. ... Read more

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  • Disowning Slavery

    Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780–1860

    by Joanne Pope Melish ...
    Following the abolition of slavery in New England, white citizens seemed to forget that it had ever existed there. Drawing on a wide array of primary sources—from slaveowners' diaries to children's daybooks to racist broadsides—Joanne Pope Melish reveals not only how northern society changed but how its perceptions changed as well.Melish explores the origins of racial thinking and practices to ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD