CSREA’s New Book Talks highlight new and notable works studying race, ethnicity, and indigeneity. They facilitate thought-provoking and critical engagement with emerging scholarship.
Consent in the Presence of Force, Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans
Emily A. Owens, David and Michelle Ebersman Assistant Professor of History, Brown University
In histories of enslavement and in Black women's history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality. At a time when sexual violence against Black women was virtually unregulated-even normalized-a vast economy developed specifically to sell the sexual labor of Black women. In this vividly rendered book, Emily A. Owens wrestles with the question of why white men paid notoriously high prices to gain sexual access to the bodies of enslaved women to whom they already had legal and social access.
This event is moderated by Juliet Hooker, Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in Political Science at Brown University.
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