S2E3: A Black Women's History of the United States

03/20/20 • 39 min

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In this special Women's History Month episode Ph.D. student Tiana Wilson sits down with Drs. Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross to discuss their most recent book, A Black Women's History of the United States. Daina Ramey Berry holds the Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professorship of History and is a Fellow of Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and the George W. Littlefield Professorship in American History at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also the Associate Dean of The Graduate School and director of the American Association of Universities PhD Education Initiative at UT Austin. Berry is the award-winning author and editor of six books and several scholarly articles including A Black Women’s History of the United States (with Kali Nicole Gross, Beacon, 2020); The Price for their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to the Grave, in the Building of a Nation (Beacon, 2017); and Swing the Sickle for the Harvest is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia (Illinois, 2007). Kali Nicole Gross is the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University–New Brunswick and she is the National Publications Director for the Association of Black Women Historians. Her expertise and opinion pieces have been featured in press outlets such as BBC News, Vanity Fair, TIME, HuffPo, The Root, and The Washington Post. She has appeared on venues such as ABC, NBC, NPR, and C-Span. Her award-winning books include Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910 (Duke University Press, 2006) and Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America (Oxford University Press, 2016). Her latest book, co-authored with Daina Ramey Berry, is A Black Women’s History of the United States (Beacon Press, 2020). Follow her on Twitter @KaliGrossPhD Tiana Wilson is a third-year doctoral student in the Department of History with a portfolio in Women and Gender Studies, here at UT-Austin. Her broader research interests include: Black Women’s Internationalism, Black Women’s Intellectual History, Women of Color Organizing, and Third World Feminism. More specifically, her dissertation explores women of color feminist movements in the U.S. from the 1960s to the present. At UT, she is the Graduate Research Assistant for the Institute for Historical Studies, coordinator of the New Work in Progress Series, and a research fellow for the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy.

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S2E2: Uma Conversa com Dra. Sueli Carneiro

Neste episódio especial para o Dia Internacional da Mulher/Dia Internacional de la Mujer, sentamos com a Dra. Sueli Carneiro, filósofa e fundadora do Geledés, Instituto da Mulher Negra do Brasil, para dialogar sobre a importância de enegrecer o feminismo, a problemática da mulher negra, e o futuro do feminismo. O podcast foi gravado durante o congresso Black Women’s Intellectual Contributions to the Americas: Perspectives from the Global South, na Universidade do Texas em Austin, 20-21 de fevereiro 2020. Sueli Carneiro é filósofa afro-brasileira, ativista anti-racista, e autora eminente sobre o feminismo negro no Brasil. Foi fundadora, em 1988, de Geledés Instituto da Mulher Negra, organização preeminente do feminismo negro e líder na luta contra o racismo e a discriminação de gênero no Brasil. Pouco depois de fundar Geledés, foi convidada para participar no Conselho Nacional da Condição Feminina em Brasília. Como parte de seu trabalho com Geledés, estabeleceu o programa de direitos humanos. Também fundou SOS Racismo, um programa que oferece conselhos legais de graça para vítimas da discriminação racial em São Paulo. Carneiro se formou em filosofia na Universidade de São Paulo e recebeu o doutorado em educação da mesma instituição. É ativista no movimento negro feminista brasileira desde o final da década 1970. Geledes: https://www.geledes.org.br Black Women’s Intellectual Contributions to the Americas: Perspectives from the Global South: https://sites.utexas.edu/lozanolongconference2020/

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S2E4: Experiences Embodied in Language and Flesh: Dr. Dora Santana

In celebration of International Transgender Day of Visibility 2020, CBW Collective member Michaela Machicote talks with trans woman warrior, scholar, activist, artist, and story-teller, Dr. Dora Santana, about experiences embodied in language and flesh. Dr. Santana is an assistant professor of Gender Studies at John Jay College CUNY and holds a PhD in African and African Diaspora Studies by the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has been published in the Transgender Studies Quarterly – TSQ – The Issue of Blackness under the title “Transitionings and Returnings: Experiments with the Poetics of Transatlantic Water,” where she emphasizes the healing role of ancestral energies in the African Diaspora as an important embodied knowledge that guides black trans people in their path of resistant and transitioning across imposed limits of gender, geographies and the secular. She also published in TSQ Trans En Las Americas, whose title is "Mais Viva: Reassembling Transness, Blackness, and Feminism." She is currently working on her book, Trans Stellar Knot-works: Afro Diasporic Technologies, Transtopias, and Accessible Futures, where she centers the knowledge production by and on Black trans women in the Black Diaspora through a range of digital and embodied media, especially in Brazil, the U.S., and African countries such as Angola.