Black Women’s Bodies in the Archive and the Afterlife of Captivity

Marisa Fuentes

Rutgers University

Historical and contemporary records are consistently unreliable for understanding Black lives in precarity. Historian Marisa Fuentes will consider the ethics of historical research into vulnerable subjects by analyzing a document from the Barbados colonial slave archives alongside the police investigation into the killing of Breonna Taylor. She also will offer ethical reading practices for today. Fuentes is Presidential Term Chair in African American History and Associate Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and the author of Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive.

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