Professor Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy discusses her book, “Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean,” which examines the relationship between disability, antiblack racism, and […]
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Reproductive Injustice: Black Motherhood and Premature Birth with Prof. Dána-Ain Davis
Prof. Dána-Ain Davis, Queens College, convincingly argues that longstanding poor birth outcomes for Black women, including higher mortality and morbidity rates, cannot simply be explained […]
Unpacking Our History Lecture – Covering the Border War
How the news media create crime, race, nation, and the USA-Mexico divide examines border newspaper coverage of the USA-Mexico divide and how the nation and […]
Slavery and Surrogacy with Alys Weinbaum
Alys Weinbaum, professor of English at the University of Washington, discusses her book, The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery. Professr Weinbaum examines how the legal and […]
Banned Books and Gay Erasure with Caitlin O’Loughlin
For Banned Books week, join Caitlin O’Loughlin as she discusses her article, “It’s Just Filth: Banned Books and the Project of Gay Erasure.” She explains […]
Police Reform and Carceral Logic with Christy Lopez
Christy Lopez draws on her work as a Deputy Chief in the Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of […]
Childhood and Carceral Society with Erica R. Meiners
Professor Erica Meiners discusses her book, For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State, in which the definition of childhood become an ideological state […]
Unpacking Our History Lecture – Eugenics After Slavery
Eugenicists’ study of mixed race people with Black and white ancestry did not emerge in a vacuum. Slavery not only gave rise to myths about […]
Slavery and Disability with Jenifer Barclay
Professor Jenifer Barclay discusses how disability and ablism helped shape American ideas of slavery, black bodies, and the medical practice. She explains how the antebellum […]
