The "Commonwealth of Virginia vs. Virginia Christian": Southern Black Women, Crime &amp; Punishment in Progressive Era Virginia

Harris, LaShawn

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“…95 Similarly, as Lashawn Harris writes, 'the diverse ways in which … southern working-poor African American women experienced and confronted Jim Crow segregation warrants more attention from scholars'. 96 Historical abortion narratives testify to Black women's consciousness and action. As the legality of abortion is challenged today in South Carolina and indeed across the American South, this history of Black women's agency and bodily autonomy is more important than ever, providing insight into, and necessary historical context for, contemporary struggles around reproductive justice.…”

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Abortion and Black Women's Health Networks in South Carolina, 1940–70

2020

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This article investigates criminal abortions in South Carolina from 1940 to 1970. This research reveals an increased regulation of Black women's bodies and heightened reporting on Black women's criminal offenses, especially abortion, from the 1940s through the 1960s. It also, however, demonstrates the intergenerational persistence of Black women's communally driven health practices, including abortion. It reveals Black women's understandings of the essential links between the past and the present: not only the persistent legacies of reproductive repression at the hands of medical and state authorities, but also women's connections with their enslaved ancestors, whose healthcare practices survived and even flourished through the mid-twentieth century in some areas.

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Abortion and Black Women's Health Networks in South Carolina, 1940–70

2020

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Taking Over, Living-In

Gill-Sadler,

Edwards

2024

Radical History Review

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This article places Toni Cade Bambara at the center of a history of Black feminist culture and its radical politics of repair through a close reading of Bambara’s and Louis Massiah’s film treatment Come as You Are. In its depiction of a group of poor, unhoused Philadelphians taking over a luxury apartment building for a live-in, Come as You Are posits taking over and living-in as practices of refusal of the state care offered through social workers, the housing authority, welfare agencies, and the police. Bambara’s cinematic work points to Black feminist representations of state violence and contra-state forms of repair that complicate how feminist theory encounters the problem of reparative appeal.

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The "Commonwealth of Virginia vs. Virginia Christian": Southern Black Women, Crime & Punishment in Progressive Era Virginia

Cited by 2 publications

References 25 publications

Abortion and Black Women's Health Networks in South Carolina, 1940–70

Abortion and Black Women's Health Networks in South Carolina, 1940–70

Taking Over, Living-In

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