Black women’s imprisonment in the South during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was central to the development of carceral capitalism and consolidated normative conceptions of race, gender, and sexuality. This talk will examine how the criminalization of black women shaped the development of modern political, economic, and cultural life under Jim Crow, while also considering women’s resistance and refusal in southern prisons as practices of black radicalism and abolitionist feminism.

Black women’s imprisonment in the South during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was central to the development of carceral capitalism and consolidated normative conceptions of race, gender, and sexuality. This talk will examine how the criminalization of black women shaped the development of modern political, economic, and cultural life under Jim Crow, while also considering women’s resistance and refusal in southern prisons as practices of black radicalism and abolitionist feminism.

In this public lecture, scholar, educator, and activist Jeanine Staples will share her groundbreaking research on the five toxic lover identities defensively constructed among marginalized women who have suffered from unmediated relational and social t/Terrors. In her presentation, Dr. Staples will illuminate the complex sociocultural and socioemotional consequences of these identities and offer a solution that can salvage not only the souls and soma of these women, but also the social and emotional justice movements they have founded and advance for the benefit of all humankind.

A Teach-In about Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline and the resistance movement #NoDAPL. Hosted by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA).

Friday, December 9, 2016
12:15pm - 1:45pm
MacMillan Hall, Room 115
167 Thayer Street, Providence RI 02912

Please join us on Friday, November 11 at 9:30 - 11:00am for an informal seminar with Gary Okihiro, professor of international and public affairs and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. The discussion will center on Professor Okihiro's recently published book, Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation (2016).

RSVP: [email protected]. Refreshments will be served.

Please join us on Tuesday, November 1, 12-1pm for a "What I Am Thinking About Now" presentation from Rolland Murray, Associate Professor of English at Brown University. His talk is titled, "Not Being and Blackness: Percival Everett and the Incorporation of Black Culture."

This talk will explore how carceral power and the techniques of containment were woven into the quotidian geographies of poor and working class Black people on Chicago's South Side. Through and examination of housing, policing, and the production of masculinity, this talk demonstrates how the explosion of Black incarceration rates in the latter 20th century were enabled by the geography of incarceration at the beginning of the century. 

Book signing and light reception to follow. Free and open to the public. 

Cosponsored by the Urban Studies Program.