@article{858447,
      author = {Harris, Leslie M. and Berry, Daina Ramey,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/858447},
      title = {Sexuality and slavery  : reclaiming intimate histories in  the Americas /},
      abstract = {"Editors Harris and Berry first conceived of this  discussion -- one of the history and relationship between  slavery and sexuality -- at a conference at the University  of Texas at Austin in October 2011. The meeting encouraged  a series of healthy dialogues with the general public,  seasoned scholars, and those just beginning to learn about  and research these topics of slavery and sexual intimacy. A  select group of scholars met again in the fall of 2012 in  New York to continue the conversation. This volume is a  result of these ongoing conversations, with additional  scholarly voices added as the project evolved. The volume  places sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the  Americas (the United States, Carribbean, and South  America). In many mainstream histories of slavery, the  editors argue that scholars have marginalized or simply  overlooked the importance of sexual practices. But sexual  intimacy comprised a core terrain of struggle between  slaveholders and the enslaved. The essays explore  consensual sexual intimacy and expression within slave  communities, as well as sexual relationships across lines  of race, status, and power. Contributors explore sexuality  as a tool of control, exploitation and repression, and also  as an expression of autonomy, resistance, and defiance.  Essayists include Jim Downs, Sowande' Mustakeem, Bianca  Premo, Marisa J. Guentes, Trevor Burnard, Jessica Millward,  Leslie Harris, Thomas Foster, David Doddington, and  Stephanie Jones-Rogers. All essays except those by Foster  and Camp are new and were expressly written for this  volume"-- Provided by publisher.},
      recid = {858447},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) :},
}