Daina Ramey Berry
Biographic Data
| ID | 3958922 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daina Ramey Berry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daina Ramey |
| FAMILY NAME | Berry |
| SIGNATURE | BERRY D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Black Reparations in the United States, 2024
This introduction seeks to perform two tasks: it provides a roadmap for readers yet to be initiated into the reparations dialogue and provides fresh insights for those already well versed in it. This edition deals with reparations for black Americans whose ancestors were enslaved in the United States for government policies that allowed centuries of chattel slavery and legal race discrimination. The articles in this double issue represent the mos…
Researching Nineteenth-Century African American History
Researching Nineteenth-Century African American History Leslie M. Harris (bio) and Daina Ramey Berry (bio) In 1985, The Historic New Orleans Collection purchased one of the few known nineteenth-century paintings of a free woman of color in the United States. François Fleischbein's Portrait of a Free Woman of Color, completed in 1837, is mounted in an elaborate and expensive goldleaf frame. The woman wears a delicately painted lace collar and bow …
Beyond 2020
2020 saw a perfect storm of events. It began with the COVID-19 pandemic that swept across the globe, followed by waves of racial unrest, economic distress, and political turbulence even as wildfires, hurricanes and tropical storms tore across our region. It was clear to all of us that we were living through sweeping historical change compressed into a short space of time. This article describes the creation of Beyond 2020: Living History, a publi…
Soul values and American slavery
This essay explores ‘soul values,’ which refers to how some enslaved people found ways to draw upon the strength of their souls to survive slavery. This kind of resistance manifested as a deep expression of their self-worth and can be found in testimonies of the enslaved, deep analyses of their actions, and careful examinations of their internal fortitude. Such spiritual resilience represents one response to enslavement on a much larger spectrum …
Women and Slavery in the Nineteenth Century
This chapter analyzes the lives of enslaved women in the nineteenth-century United States and the Caribbean, an era characterized by the massive expansion of the institution of chattel slavery. Framing the discussion through the themes of labor, commodification, sexuality, and resistance, this chapter highlights the wide range of lived experiences of enslaved women in the Atlantic World. Enslaved women’s productive and reproductive labor fueled t…
Sexuality and Slavery
Contested Bodies
By opening with a powerful vignette and image of an unnamed naked enslaved woman suspended by her ankles, Sasha Turner takes readers of Contested Bodies right to the heart of her study. Enslaved women's bodies, the primary subject of this book, represented sites of contestation that abolitionists, slave traders, physicians, seamen, and enslavers sought to control. Although we know very little about the young woman who was tortured for three days …
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh
After Piketty
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent history, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas Piketty pushed to the forefront of global conversation? A cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty,…
The Half Has Never Been Told
In The Half Has Never Been Told the historian Edward E. Baptist vividly describes the ways enslaved people shaped the development of modern capitalism. He asserts that their exploitation in the cotton fields, through violent force, enabled the United States to prosper, expand, and become a world leader in cotton production. Baptist anchors his study in the eighty-year period between the end of the American Revolution and the beginning of the Civi…
Slavery and Freedom in Savannah
Slave Breeding
Book Review| April 01 2014 Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History. By Gregory D. Smithers. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012. xii + 257 pp. $74.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Daina Ramey Berry Daina Ramey Berry Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2014) 33 (3): 117–118. https://do…
“Ter Show Yo’ de Value of Slaves”
Enslaved Women in America
This singular reference provides an authoritative account of the daily lives of enslaved women in the United States, from colonial times to emancipation following the Civil War. Through essays, photos, and primary source documents, the female experience is explored, and women are depicted as central, rather than marginal, figures in history. Slavery in the history of the United States continues to loom large in our national consciousness, and the…
Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe
In Pressing Need of Cash
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh
The Half Has Never Been Told
In The Half Has Never Been Told the historian Edward E. Baptist vividly describes the ways enslaved people shaped the development of modern capitalism. He asserts that their exploitation in the cotton fields, through violent force, enabled the United States to prosper, expand, and become a world leader in cotton production. Baptist anchors his study in the eighty-year period between the end of the American Revolution and the beginning of the Civi…
Black Reparations in the United States, 2024
This introduction seeks to perform two tasks: it provides a roadmap for readers yet to be initiated into the reparations dialogue and provides fresh insights for those already well versed in it. This edition deals with reparations for black Americans whose ancestors were enslaved in the United States for government policies that allowed centuries of chattel slavery and legal race discrimination. The articles in this double issue represent the mos…
Soul values and American slavery
This essay explores ‘soul values,’ which refers to how some enslaved people found ways to draw upon the strength of their souls to survive slavery. This kind of resistance manifested as a deep expression of their self-worth and can be found in testimonies of the enslaved, deep analyses of their actions, and careful examinations of their internal fortitude. Such spiritual resilience represents one response to enslavement on a much larger spectrum …
In Pressing Need of Cash
In Pressing Need of Cash
Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe
Enslaved Women in America
This singular reference provides an authoritative account of the daily lives of enslaved women in the United States, from colonial times to emancipation following the Civil War. Through essays, photos, and primary source documents, the female experience is explored, and women are depicted as central, rather than marginal, figures in history. Slavery in the history of the United States continues to loom large in our national consciousness, and the…
“Ter Show Yo’ de Value of Slaves”
Slavery and Freedom in Savannah
Slave Breeding
Book Review| April 01 2014 Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History. By Gregory D. Smithers. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012. xii + 257 pp. $74.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Daina Ramey Berry Daina Ramey Berry Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2014) 33 (3): 117–118. https://do…
The Half Has Never Been Told
In The Half Has Never Been Told the historian Edward E. Baptist vividly describes the ways enslaved people shaped the development of modern capitalism. He asserts that their exploitation in the cotton fields, through violent force, enabled the United States to prosper, expand, and become a world leader in cotton production. Baptist anchors his study in the eighty-year period between the end of the American Revolution and the beginning of the Civi…
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh
After Piketty
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent history, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas Piketty pushed to the forefront of global conversation? A cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty,…
Women and Slavery in the Nineteenth Century
This chapter analyzes the lives of enslaved women in the nineteenth-century United States and the Caribbean, an era characterized by the massive expansion of the institution of chattel slavery. Framing the discussion through the themes of labor, commodification, sexuality, and resistance, this chapter highlights the wide range of lived experiences of enslaved women in the Atlantic World. Enslaved women’s productive and reproductive labor fueled t…
Sexuality and Slavery
Contested Bodies
By opening with a powerful vignette and image of an unnamed naked enslaved woman suspended by her ankles, Sasha Turner takes readers of Contested Bodies right to the heart of her study. Enslaved women's bodies, the primary subject of this book, represented sites of contestation that abolitionists, slave traders, physicians, seamen, and enslavers sought to control. Although we know very little about the young woman who was tortured for three days …
Soul values and American slavery
This essay explores ‘soul values,’ which refers to how some enslaved people found ways to draw upon the strength of their souls to survive slavery. This kind of resistance manifested as a deep expression of their self-worth and can be found in testimonies of the enslaved, deep analyses of their actions, and careful examinations of their internal fortitude. Such spiritual resilience represents one response to enslavement on a much larger spectrum …
Researching Nineteenth-Century African American History
Researching Nineteenth-Century African American History Leslie M. Harris (bio) and Daina Ramey Berry (bio) In 1985, The Historic New Orleans Collection purchased one of the few known nineteenth-century paintings of a free woman of color in the United States. François Fleischbein's Portrait of a Free Woman of Color, completed in 1837, is mounted in an elaborate and expensive goldleaf frame. The woman wears a delicately painted lace collar and bow …
Beyond 2020
2020 saw a perfect storm of events. It began with the COVID-19 pandemic that swept across the globe, followed by waves of racial unrest, economic distress, and political turbulence even as wildfires, hurricanes and tropical storms tore across our region. It was clear to all of us that we were living through sweeping historical change compressed into a short space of time. This article describes the creation of Beyond 2020: Living History, a publi…
Black Reparations in the United States, 2024
This introduction seeks to perform two tasks: it provides a roadmap for readers yet to be initiated into the reparations dialogue and provides fresh insights for those already well versed in it. This edition deals with reparations for black Americans whose ancestors were enslaved in the United States for government policies that allowed centuries of chattel slavery and legal race discrimination. The articles in this double issue represent the mos…
History (11 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Race, History, and American Society (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (3 works)