Event Details

Part 1

"Narrating Black Women's Incarceration and Resistance from the 19th Century to the Present"

A scholarly conversation with Kyera Singleton ‘11

Kyera Singleton, Class of 2011 is a Policy Fellow at the ACLU of Georgia and a PhD candidate in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Her dissertation, “Containing Black Women: Gendered Geographies of Imprisonment in the American South” focuses on black women in state-sanctioned institutions, such as jails and penitentiaries, and in domestic spaces such as locked closets and make-shift dungeons on plantations. In those locations, slaveholders and prison officials sought to control black women’s mobility, prevent their freedom, and steal their labor. She has received fellowships from the American Association of University Women and the James Weldon Johnson Institute at Emory University; she graduated from Macalester with majors in American Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. 
In dialogue with Crystal Moten, PhD, Assistant Professor of History and Guy Chinang '20, American Studies major. 
This event is the first in a series called "Confinement, Borders, Resistance" co-organized with Asian Studies and Latin American Studies.