THE PRESENCE OF SLAVERY IN EVERYDAY LIFE
During the Fall 2020 semester I took a course titled (De)constructing Black Girlhood(s) with Prof. Sherry Deckman at the CUNY Graduate Center. For my final project I developed what I hope to be an ongoing project titled, The Presence of Slavery in Everyday Life. In this project I use multimodal approaches to explore the temporality of Black life in 2020. I examine a series of ruptures which I argue can be best understood as The Presence of Slavery in Everyday Life. Please click on the link at the bottom of this webpage to view a presentation of my work thus far.
"How do we memoralize an event that is still ongoing? Might we instead understand the absence of a National Slavery Museum in the United States as recognition of the ongoingness of the conditions of capture?"