Black Women Dissidents: Audacity, Criminality, and Knowing Otherwise

On March 18, 2024, University of Delaware professors Alicia Fontnette, Kathryn Benjamin Golden and Cheryl Hicks discussed Black women's dissidence, criminality, and knowledge production. Golden discussed her book, This Insurgent Ground: Black Women, Marronage, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp. Hicks shared research from her book, Audacious Hanna: Interracial Scandal, Pleasure, and the Politics of Race in Turn-of-the-Century, 1865–1930. Fontnette shared her work on on her article, "The Criminalization and Adultification of Black Girls in America's School System & Identity Formation." All three professors are faculty members of the Department of African Studies.