Histories of Violence I: Gender and Sexuality

Session Submission Type: Paper Session: Traditional Format

Abstract

Scholars that centralize violence have generated critical insights. The study of sexual violence alongside racial violence was central to the emergence of intersectionality—the notion that race and gender are mutually constitutive processes—that has transformed the field of women and gender history. This panel highlights scholarship that centralizes lynching, night-riding, rape, and hate crimes, examining how an intersectional approach generates from the use of violence as a category of analysis.

Sub Unit

• American Studies Association Annual Meeting

Chair

• To Be Announced, NA

Individual Presentations

• When the Men Came: New Histories of Violence after the Civil War - Kidada Williams, Wayne State University (MI)

• Murder in the Motor City: Police Violence and the 1967 Rebellion. - Danielle McGuire, Wayne State University (MI)

• Understanding Racial and Colonial Violence - Laura Briggs, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MA)