Sarah Haley, UCLA assistant professor of gender studies, has been awarded a Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation for 2014-15. She will use this fellowship to complete her book-length project, "Engendering Captivity: Black Women and Convict Labor After the Civil War."
The project is an interdisciplinary history of African American women’s experiences of punishment in the U.S. South during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The study examines patterns of arrest and incarceration, labor exploitation and vulnerability to specific practices of gendered racial terror. Haley's project also illuminates black women’s practices of resistance, including epistemological challenges to carceral logics and industrial sabotage strategies. Drawing upon black feminist theory in addition to social history methodologies, "Engendering Captivity" argues that the convict labor regime was a technology of racialized gendering and ungendering, which was central to the social, political, and economic development of Jim Crow modernity.
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