Read They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, on slave owing white women. This book offers a much needed corrective to the ways in which white women have been positioned as innocent in the system of racial domination and enslavement. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300218664/they-were-her-property …
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She also exposes the blind spots of historical analysis that has tended to treat the business of enslavement as essentially masculinist, thereby bolstering the false narrative of white women's racial innocence in this project.
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The chapter on wet nursing is particularly interesting given the exchange of fluids necessary in that project and the fiction of racial purity that undergirds enslavement.
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Yep, I keep saying it’s astonishing every step of the way, even for someone like me who feels I’m somewhat in the field.
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I am in awe of the research, the arguments, and the comprehensiveness of this work. It really exposes a deliberate occlusion in the field while highlighting how historical reconstruction has been a whiteness project.
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