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Slavery And The Roots Of Sexual Harassment, Adrienne D. Davis
Slavery And The Roots Of Sexual Harassment, Adrienne D. Davis
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In recent years, feminist scholars and activists have demonstrated the ways that U.S. slavery functioned as a system of gender supremacy. It entailed the dominance of men over women as well as whites over blacks. Adding the gender lens has shed immense light on the ways that sex, law, and power operated in the racially supremacist enslaving South. In recent years, this literature has emphasized the ways that slavery's sexual and racial subordination converged around the bodies of enslaved black women. One project within this literature characterizes slavery as a "sexual political economy" to make explicit the connections between its …
Subject Unrest, Jerome M. Culp Jr., Angela P. Harris, Francisco Valdes
Subject Unrest, Jerome M. Culp Jr., Angela P. Harris, Francisco Valdes
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