WAYWARD LIVES

Saidiya Hartman

2016 American Studies Distinguished Lecture Saidiya Hartman is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author

of Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007) and Scenes of

Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America (Oxford, 1997). She is finishing

a new book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (Norton, 2017) which examines the sexual upheaval and

radical transformation of everyday life that took place in the slums in the early decades of the 20th century.

The remaking of the slum as the black ghetto consolidated the racial order and extended the reach of the

plantation to the city.

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Thursday November 3rd 5:10PM