This event is co-sponsored by the Departments of Feminist Studies, History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, and the Center for Racial Justice
This talk names the layered applications, quotidian quality, and refusals of physical, psychological, and archival violence against Haitian women during the US occupation (1915-1934). Told alongside the story of a teenage girl’s life and death, the talk ultimately considers experimental historical practices as an opportunity to intervene in the presumed teleology of Black women’s lives through the practice of archival offering.
Grace L. Sanders Johnson is a historian, visual artist, and assistant professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her areas of study include modern Caribbean history, transnational feminisms, oral history, and environmental humanities. Her most recent work can be found in several journals including Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (2022), American Anthropologist (2022), and Caribbean Review of Gender Studies (2018). Her book White Gloves, Black Nation: Women, Citizenship, and Political Wayfaring in Haiti is forthcoming (University of North Carolina Press, 2023).
Date | Time
October 26, 2022 | 12:15 – 1:30 PM [PST]
Free and open to the public
Venue | Location
Humanities Building 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz
Followed by Archive, History, Memory: A Conversation with Grace L. Sanders Johnson and Gina Athena Ulysse 4:00 – 5:30 PM [PST] in Humanities 202