Sex, Race, Imperialism: A Roundtable of New Books (with their authors)
Part of a series in honor of the 50th anniversary of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts.
This roundtable celebrates four new books released in 2023 that explore the relationships among sex, race, capitalism, liberal humanism, and humanitarianism. The authors consider how the histories and afterlives of slavery, ideological and structural formations of racial capitalism, and cultures of liberalism and evangelism shape the material conditions and survival strategies of Black women and Asian migrant workers, and in the other direction, dominant legal, humanitarian, and philanthropic responses to social inequality.
Emily Owens (Brown University), Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans.
Elena Shih (Brown University), Manufacturing Freedom : Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Rehab, and the Racial Wages of Rescue.
Lyndsey Beutin (McMaster University) Trafficking in Antiblackness: Modern-Day Slavery, White Indemnity, and Racial Justice.
Lucia Hulsether (Skidmore College) Capitalist Humanitarianism.
Moderated by Laura Briggs (UMass Amherst)