Lakisha Michelle Simmons
Biographic Data
| ID | 388046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lakisha Michelle Simmons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lakisha Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Simmons |
| SIGNATURE | SIMMONS L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8187-5401 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1891 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Black Children's Affective Labor in Slavery and Freedom
Taking Premilla Nadasen's article as a jumping off point, this essay pushes social reproduction theory (SRT) to think about labor performed by children. Children often engage in the labor of social reproduction: cooking, cleaning, nurturing families and animals, and watching other children. Focusing on enslaved Black children sheds light on some of the most marginalized and invisible labor, while also considering a group of people (children) who …
Conjure Feminism
We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children, and, if necessary, bone by bone.-Alice Walker
Black Feminist Theories of Motherhood and Generation
Throughout the twentieth century, Black women in the United States experienced at least double the rates of infant mortality experienced by white women. Through an analysis of oral histories collected in the US South in the 1930s—ex-slave narratives and Federal Writer’s Project interviews—I detail what Patricia Hill Collins terms a “Black women’s standpoint on mothering.” From interviewees’ discussions of infant and child loss emerge twin concept…
Hypatia Special Issue
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Introduction to Special Issue
Research Article| April 01 2019 Introduction to Special Issue: Black Girlhood and Kinship Corinne T. Field; Corinne T. Field CORINNE T. FIELD is an associate professor in the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Virginia and the Mellon-Schlesinger Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She is currently completing a monograph titled Grand Old Women and Modern Girls: Age, Race, and Powe…
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners by LaShawn Harris is a beautifully rendered history about Black women searching for “labor autonomy and mobility” (p. 2). Many women found more independen
To Lay Aside All Morals’
Disciplining Women
In Disciplining Women, Deborah Elizabeth Whaley offers a fair and even treatment of Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) history. Notably, Whaley begins her history of the black sorority with her personal connection to the organization. Although she is not a member, her sister pledged AKA in college and she has other family connections to black Greek organizations. Whaley argues that these connections to AKA critically position her as both an insider and an o…
Justice Mocked”
On February 10, 1930, a white police officer, Charles Guerand, attempted to rape fourteen-year-old Hattie McCray in the New Orleans restaurant where she worked. Prevented from attacking her, Guerand proceeded to shoot and kill the black teenager. McCray's death disrupted Jim Crow discourses of race, justice and black women's sexuality. When McCray was killed, Onelia Sayas Cherrie was a fourteen-year-old student at the only New Orleans high school…
Sleep and Death
Introduction to Special Issue
Research Article| April 01 2019 Introduction to Special Issue: Black Girlhood and Kinship Corinne T. Field; Corinne T. Field CORINNE T. FIELD is an associate professor in the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Virginia and the Mellon-Schlesinger Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She is currently completing a monograph titled Grand Old Women and Modern Girls: Age, Race, and Powe…
Conjure Feminism
We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children, and, if necessary, bone by bone.-Alice Walker
To Lay Aside All Morals’
Black Feminist Theories of Motherhood and Generation
Throughout the twentieth century, Black women in the United States experienced at least double the rates of infant mortality experienced by white women. Through an analysis of oral histories collected in the US South in the 1930s—ex-slave narratives and Federal Writer’s Project interviews—I detail what Patricia Hill Collins terms a “Black women’s standpoint on mothering.” From interviewees’ discussions of infant and child loss emerge twin concept…
Sleep and Death
Justice Mocked”
On February 10, 1930, a white police officer, Charles Guerand, attempted to rape fourteen-year-old Hattie McCray in the New Orleans restaurant where she worked. Prevented from attacking her, Guerand proceeded to shoot and kill the black teenager. McCray's death disrupted Jim Crow discourses of race, justice and black women's sexuality. When McCray was killed, Onelia Sayas Cherrie was a fourteen-year-old student at the only New Orleans high school…
Disciplining Women
In Disciplining Women, Deborah Elizabeth Whaley offers a fair and even treatment of Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) history. Notably, Whaley begins her history of the black sorority with her personal connection to the organization. Although she is not a member, her sister pledged AKA in college and she has other family connections to black Greek organizations. Whaley argues that these connections to AKA critically position her as both an insider and an o…
To Lay Aside All Morals’
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners by LaShawn Harris is a beautifully rendered history about Black women searching for “labor autonomy and mobility” (p. 2). Many women found more independen
Hypatia Special Issue
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Introduction to Special Issue
Research Article| April 01 2019 Introduction to Special Issue: Black Girlhood and Kinship Corinne T. Field; Corinne T. Field CORINNE T. FIELD is an associate professor in the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Virginia and the Mellon-Schlesinger Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She is currently completing a monograph titled Grand Old Women and Modern Girls: Age, Race, and Powe…
Conjure Feminism
We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children, and, if necessary, bone by bone.-Alice Walker
Black Feminist Theories of Motherhood and Generation
Throughout the twentieth century, Black women in the United States experienced at least double the rates of infant mortality experienced by white women. Through an analysis of oral histories collected in the US South in the 1930s—ex-slave narratives and Federal Writer’s Project interviews—I detail what Patricia Hill Collins terms a “Black women’s standpoint on mothering.” From interviewees’ discussions of infant and child loss emerge twin concept…
Black Children's Affective Labor in Slavery and Freedom
Taking Premilla Nadasen's article as a jumping off point, this essay pushes social reproduction theory (SRT) to think about labor performed by children. Children often engage in the labor of social reproduction: cooking, cleaning, nurturing families and animals, and watching other children. Focusing on enslaved Black children sheds light on some of the most marginalized and invisible labor, while also considering a group of people (children) who …
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