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The Belly of the World: A Note on Black Women’s Labors
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Critical Race TheoryColonialismMaster DreamsRacial StudyBlack ExperienceSocial SciencesBlack Feminist ThoughtRaceCaribbean StudiesGender StudiesAfrican American StudiesBlack WomenCultural HistorySlave ShipWomen StudiesBlack Feminist TheoryIntersectionalityBlack RadicalismFeminist TheoryFuture IncreaseHumanitiesBlack PoliticsBlack Women’s StudiesSociologyBlack FeminismBlack Women ’
The slave ship is a womb/abyss. The plantation is the belly of the world. Partus sequitur ventrem—the child follows the belly. The master dreams of future increase. The modern world follows the bel...