Gender Talk: Against property: Black feminist land relations in bell hooks’ homeplace

We invite you to join us for our final Gender Talk of this academic year! Danielle Purifoy revisits bell hooks’ 1990 essay ‘homeplace: a site of resistance,’ to consider what framework the life affirming, Black feminist social and political space in the intergenerational Black home offers for considering relationships to land beyond property. Using examples of the homeplace in Lowndes County, Alabama and in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, Purifoy demonstrates how these sites of Black collectivism and political resistance simultaneously eroded the boundaries of legal property in the U.S. South. We extend gratitude to our cosponsors: The Forestry Outreach Center and the Department of Law, Ethics, and Society. Lunch will be served for attendees.