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Slave Breeding - Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History (Paperback)
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"A thought-provoking piece of scholarship that sheds light on the
complex history of slave breeding in America. Smithers's book will
be hotly debated in the profession."--Michael L. Ondaatje,
University of Newcastle, Australia "As engaging as it is
compelling, bold, and captivating, Smithers's Slave Breeding pulls
the reader through its pages with heart-wrenching exposition of the
dark and ugly chapter of what could rightly be characterized as the
sexual zeitgeist of American national history."--Tunde Adeleke,
Iowa State University For over two centuries, the topic of slave
breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative
of American history. From nineteenth-century abolitionists to
twentieth-century filmmakers and artists, Americans have debated
whether slave owners deliberately and coercively manipulated the
sexual practices and marital status of enslaved African Americans
to reproduce new generations of slaves for profit. In this bold and
provocative book, historian Gregory Smithers investigates how
African Americans have narrated, remembered, and represented
slave-breeding practices. He argues that while social and economic
historians have downplayed the significance of slave breeding,
African Americans have refused to forget the violence and sexual
coercion associated with the plantation South. By placing African
American histories and memories of slave breeding within the larger
context of America's history of racial and gender discrimination,
Smithers sheds much-needed light on African American collective
memory, racialized perceptions of fragile black families, and the
long history of racially motivated violence against men, women, and
children of color. Gregory D. Smithers teaches American history at
the Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of "Science,
Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia,
1780s-1890s" and coauthor of "The Preacher and the Politician:
Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama and Race in America."
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