Episode 22 | The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland  

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor and poet DaMaris B. Hill

Author of A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland (Bloomsbury, 2019), which Roxanne Gay says, “What you will read here is not just poetry, though. This book offers an education. This book bears witness. This book is a reckoning.” Hill is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and African American Literature and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. Her books included the edited collection The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland (Lexington Books, 2016) and A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing. From Harriet Tubman to Assata Shakur, Ida B. Wells to Sandra Bland. In A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing,  Hill honors their experiences with at times harrowing, at times hopeful responses to her heroes, illustrated with black-and-white photographs throughout.