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Going to the Territory: History, Memory and the Politics of Place in Beyonce’s Lemonade—10 Years Later with Dr. Daphne A. Brooks

Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Alliance (DFMA) is teaming up with Inwood Library to bring you a free, in-person community livestream and discussion of both Talking About Race Matters lectures this March.

Talking About Race Matters (TARM) is a two-part virtual lecture series where notable scholars share their groundbreaking work on cultural history and social justice. This month, TARM lectures will explore the cultural and political contributions of Black women musicians in America. This is “The Song of Our Freedom: Black Music in America” in celebration of Women’s History Month and the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

The second TARM lecture features features Dr. Daphne A. Brooks, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Black Studies, American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Music at Yale University. She is the author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910 (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2006), winner of The Errol Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship on African American Performance from ASTR; Jeff Buckley’s Grace (New York: Continuum, 2005) and Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound (Harvard University, February 2021).

This talk will explore the enduring significance of Beyonce’s pathbreaking 2016 album Lemonade and marks the 10th anniversary of its release. Through an examination of New Orleans culture and a meditation on this visual album’s formidable meditations on the afterlives of slavery, this talk showcases the enduring impact of an instant pop music classic and cultural phenomenon.

*After the livestream, in-person attendees will participate in a guided discussion and explore supplementary reading curated by Library staff and TARM lecturers. Small snacks will be provided.*

Adults 18+

Date: Tuesday, March 24th

Time: 4:30pm-5:30pm virtually OR 4:30PM-6PM for those attending in-person

Cost: FREE

Registration Required? Yes, register via Zoom or NYPL events page 

Location: Virtual via Zoom or 2nd floor Community Room at Inwood Library

“I Was Their Midwife”: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood on Seventeenth-Century Slave Ships

“I was their midwife”: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood on Seventeenth-Century Slave Ships

By Dr. Andrea Mosterman

August 28th at 12PM
VIRTUAL; FREE
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Ships are usually seen as masculine spaces, and slave ships are no exception. But as the slave voyages database shows, about a fourth of the captives transported on board seventeenth and eighteenth-century Dutch slavers were in fact women. In this presentation, I explore the experiences of women on board these slavers, paying special attention to pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood in these spaces.

 

“Yo Fui su Partera”: Embarazo, parto y maternidad en barcos de esclavos del siglo XVII.

Por la Dra. Andrea Mosterman

28 de agosto a las 12PM

VIRTUAL VÍA ZOOM

Los barcos son usualmente vistos como espacios masculinos y los botes que transportaban esclavos no eran la excepción. Pero las bases de datos de esclavizadores holandeses de los siglos XVII y XVIII demuestran que un cuarto de todos los esclavos transportados eran mujeres. En esta presentación exploro las experiencias de estas mujeres a bordo de estas naves, prestando atención especial al embarazo, parto y maternidad en estos espacios.