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"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation. Exposed to violence and rape, subjugated on chain gangs and as convict laborers, and forced to serve additional time as domestic workers before they were allowed their freedom, black women faced a pitiless system of violence, terror, and debasement. Drawing upon black feminist criticism and a diverse array of archival materials, Sarah Haley uncovers imprisoned women's brutalization in local, county, and state convict labor systems, while also illuminating the prisoners' acts of resistance and sabotage, challenging ideologies of racial capitalism and patriarchy and offering alternative conceptions of social and political life"--

In this contribution to GLQ's Q2, the authors discuss the long histories of gender violence, anti-Blackness, and criminalization and the strategies and resources of abolition feminism for responding to the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson decision in 2022.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Antiblackness of the Social and the Human -- PART I OPENINGS -- Chapter one. The Illumination of Blackness -- Chapter two. Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire -- Chapter three. Afro-feminism before Afropessimism: Meditations on Gender and Ontology -- Chapter four. Toward a General Theory of Antiblackness -- PART II GROUNDINGS -- Chapter Five. Limited Growth: U.S. Settler Slavery, Colonial India, and Global Rice Markets in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- Chapter six. Flesh Work and the Reproduction of Black Culpability -- Chapter seven. "Not to Be Slaves of Others": Antiblackness in Precolonial Korea -- PART III CAPTIVITIES -- Chapter eight. "Mass Incarceration" as Misnomer: Chattel/ Domestic War and the Problem of Narrativity -- Chapter nine. Gendered Antiblackness and Police Violence in the Formations of British Political Liberalism -- Chapter ten. Schools as Sites of Antiblack Violence: Black Girls and Policing in the Afterlife of Slavery -- Chapter eleven. Presidential Powers in the Captive Maternal Lives of Sally, Michelle, and Deborah -- PART IV UNSETTLINGS -- Chapter twelve. On the Illegibility of French Antiblackness: Notes from an African American Critic -- Chapter thirteen. Latino Antiblack Bias and the Census Categorization of Latinos: Race, Ethnicity, or Other -- Chapter fourteen. Born Palestinian, Born Black: Antiblackness and the Womb of Zionist Settler Colonialism -- Chapter fifteen. Not Yet: Indigeneity, Antiblackness, and Anticolonial Liberation -- References -- Contributors -- Index