Caribbean Currents: Reading the Archipelago, a Book Discussion

Join the Caribbean Currents Working Group for a lunchtime discussion of White Gloves, Black Nation: Women, Citizenship, and Political Wayfaring in Haiti(2023, University of North Carolina Press). Registered participants will receive a hard copy of the book in advance of the event and are invited to join us in conversation about the text’s interventions, major themes, methods, and resonance with emerging scholarship across scholarly fields. This event is open to UVA graduate students, pre- and postdoctoral fellows, and faculty only. Advanced registration is required.

 

Grace Sanders Johnson received her Ph.D. in History & Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan where she specialized in Modern Caribbean and Latin American History, Transnational Feminisms, Oral History, and African Diasporic Studies. Her monograph White Gloves, Black Nation received the 2023 Haitian Studies Association book prize. This ambitious transnational history considers Haitian women's political life during and after the United States occupation of Haiti (1915-34). Tracing elite and middle-class women's activism and intellectual practice from the countryside of Kenscoff, Haiti, to Philadelphia, the Belgian Congo, and back to Port-au-Prince, this book tells the story of Haitian women's essential role as co-curators of modern Haitian citizenship.

 

Questions 

Contact Prof. Sinclair at dam5ha@virginia.edu.