'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
