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WAYWARD LIVES Saidiya Hartman 2016 American Studies Distinguished Lecture Saidiya Hartman is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007) and Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America (Oxford, 1997). She is finishing a new book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (Norton, 2017) which examines the sexual upheaval and radical transformation of everyday life that took place in the slums in the early decades of the 20th century. The remaking of the slum as the black ghetto consolidated the racial order and extended the reach of the plantation to the city. DUQUES HALL ROOM 151 Thursday November 3rd 5:10PM
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WAYWARD LIVES
Saidiya Hartman
2016 American Studies Distinguished Lecture Saidiya Hartman is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author
of Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007) and Scenes of
Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America (Oxford, 1997). She is finishing
a new book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (Norton, 2017) which examines the sexual upheaval and
radical transformation of everyday life that took place in the slums in the early decades of the 20th century.
The remaking of the slum as the black ghetto consolidated the racial order and extended the reach of the
plantation to the city.
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Thursday November 3rd 5:10PM
