"'This Giving Birth:' The Politics of Pregnancy and Childbirth in African American Women's History and Literature"
Kathleen Lacey (Graduate Student, English, Women's and Gender Studies Program, UNL)
American Black women’s pregnant bodies have historically been used and abused for profit, experimentation, and population control. Linking this history to African American women’s literature, Kathleen Lacey will explore the ways Black women authors reveal the complicated and nuanced experiences of being Black while pregnant.
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