Left of Black S5:E21:  Black Erotic Lives in Slavery and Freedom

Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined in studio by Professor Jessica Marie Johnson (@jmjafrx) and Professor Treva Blaine Lindsey (@DivaFeminist), co-authors of the essay “Searching for Climax: Black Erotic Lives in Slavery and Freedom.” In the essay Professor Johnson (Michigan State University) and Professor Lindsey (The Ohio State University) grapple with the “erotic lives of black women during slavery,” offering a “new lens with which to comprehend the lived experience of chattel slavery.” The essay was published as part of a special issue of Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism.

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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University and in conjunction with the Center for Arts, Digital Culture & Entrepreneurship (CADCE).

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