Black Women’s History and the Labor of Mourning

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About the Author

Jessica Millward in an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is author of Finding Charity’s Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015).

Notes

Isabel Wilkerson, "Where Do We Go from Here," Essence.com, January 5, 2015, http://www.essence.com/2015/01/06/where-do-we-go-here-essay-isabel-wilkerson (accessed April 12, 2016).

Claudia Rankine, “The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning,” New York Times, July 22, 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/22/magazine/the-condition-of-black-life-is-one-of-mourning.html (accessed April 12, 2016).

Jessica Millward, Finding Charity’s Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015), 16–17; See also Jennifer L. Morgan, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004).

Millward, Finding Charity’s Folk, 16–17.

Darlene Clark Hine, “Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women: Thoughts on the Culture of Dissemblance,” in her Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re-Construction of American History (New York: Carlson Publishing, 1994), 37–48.

Daina Ramey Berry and Jennifer L. Morgan, “#Blacklivesmatter Till They Don’t: Slavery’s Lasting Legacy: The Historical Value of Black Life and the Casual Killing of Eric Garner,” The American Prospect, December 5, 2014. http://prospect.org/article/blacklivesmatter-till-they-dont-slaverys-lasting-legacy (accessed October 15, 2015).

Kali N. Gross, “How Do Mothers of Slain Unarmed Black Daughters Grieve?” Huffington Post, December 30, 2014. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kali-nicole-gross/how-do-mothers-of-slain-unarmed-black-daughters-grieve_b_6383048.html (accessed October 28, 2015).

See Jessica Millward, Finding Charity’s Folk, especially the Prologue, xvii–xxii.

Millward, Finding Charity’s Folk, xxi.

Millward, Finding Charity’s Folk, xxi.

Deborah Gray White, ed., Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008), 21–22.

Chamara J. Kwakye, Loud Silence: Black Women in the Academy (Ph. D. Dissertation: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2011).

Elsa Barkley Brown, “Bodies of History,” in Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower, edited by Deborah Gray White (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008), 221–22.

Imani Brammer, “Thank #BlkWomenSyllabus for the Ultimate Reading List to Empower Black Women,” Essence.com, August 12, 2015. http://editor.essence.com/2015/08/12/thank-blkwomensyllabus-ultimate-reading-list-empower-black-women (accessed November 1, 2015); see also Jessica Marie Johnson, “Charnesia Corley and a Storify for the #blkwomensyllabus,” African American Intellectual History Society, August 16, 2015. http://aaihs.org/charnesia-corley-the-blkwomensyllabus-storify/ (accessed November 1, 2015).

Session Title, “Beyond Talk: Herstory in Action,” Cross Generational Conversations on Black Women’s History Conference, Michigan State University, March 21, 2015. See also Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life (New York and London: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition, 1994).

Jessica Marie Johnson, “My OAH Tribute: Stephanie M. H. Camp & Deborah Gray White,” as posted on Diasporahypertext, April 18, 2014. http://diasporahypertext.com/2014/04/18/my-oah-tribute-stephanie-m-h-camp-deborah-gray-white/ (accessed November 1, 2015).