She Is Weeping

Dannelle Gutarra Cordero is Lecturer in African American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Director of the Archival Justice for the Enslaved Project at Princeton University. She has been selected for fellowships at Harvard University and The New School for Social Research.

• 1. The emotional foundations of racialized slavery; 2. Scientific racism and emotional difference; 3. Atlantic slavery and its passionate transgressions; 4. The 'abolition' of an economic apparatus of feelings; 5. The racialization of emotions in contemporary slavery; Bibliography.

'She is Weeping is an uncompromising indictment of the tendency to characterize people of African descent as figures who simultaneously feel 'too much' and 'too little.' In this sweeping work of intellectual history, Gutarra Cordero makes a convincing case for the endurance and power of these centuries-old conceptions of Black emotional deviance, linking these deep-seated cultural beliefs to the rise of Atlantic World slavery and racial capitalism, the persistence of racialized sexual violence, and the expansion of the carceral state in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.' Erica L. Ball, author of To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class