Sasha Turner on Slavery, Emotions, and Gendered Power
Sasha Turner, Associate Professor, History, Quinnipiac University joins Thomas Thurston in the studio to talk about her work on Slavery, Emotions, and Gendered Power.
Sasha Turner is Associate Professor of History at Quinnipiac University. She is the author of Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica. Sasha holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and a BA from the University of the West Indies.
Recommended Resources:
- Williams, Rhaisa Kameela. “Toward a Theorization of Black Maternal Grief as Analytic.” Journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists. Volume 24, Issue 1. April 2016. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/traa.12057
- Gross, Kali Nicole. “How Do Mothers of Slain, Unarmed Black Daughters Grieve?” Huffington Post. December, 2014. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/kali-nicole-gross/how-do-mothers-of-slain-unarmed-black-daughters-grieve_b_6383048.html
- Festa, Lynn. “Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France.” Johns Hopkins University Press. 2006. https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/sentimental-figures-empire-eighteenth-century-britain-and-france
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