How to Get Away With Trauma:Black Women's Bodies as Public Sites of Life and Death

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

This session will be structured as an on-going conversation on research focused on Black women's bodies as sites of childbirth and even death. The speakers will focus on extended breastfeeding and how black women's bodies present a challenge to normative narratives on breastfeeding; additionally, the speakers will discuss the trauma public scrutiny of black women's bodies undergo in public policy, sexuality, and popular culture narratives.

Sub Unit

• 101st Annual Meeting and Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

Chair

• Tammy Henderson, UMBC

Discussants

• Nicole Cousin-Gossett, UMBC

• Kim Moffitt, UMBC

• Kalima Young, UMCP

• ASALH Audience, .