Introduction - The Problem of Suicide in North American Slavery

Snyder, Terri L.

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“…In this way, the figure of the jumping woman can be drawn more ambiguously. The act is more enigmatic, appearing at once an act of despair and self-destruction, while equally a ‘gesture of love or rebellion’ (Snyder, 2015: 160), a story of strength and solidarity.…”

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“…In the wake of these disasters, the depiction of jumping, falling women became relatively common, yet there are unlikely resonances with an earlier portrayal of women in flight as Snyder (2015) shows in the representation of ‘Anna’s Leap’, which depicts an enslaved woman confined to an attic in the District of Colombia, who, in 1815, jumped out of the attic window rather than face enslavement in Georgia and separation from her family. Preceding the Shirtwaist and the Dhaka disasters that gathered together outrage and concern for subsequent labour reform, Anna’s leap helped mobilise anti-slavery sentiment in the United States (Snyder, 2015: 3). Yet the garment workers’ attempted escape was more collective, even if their embodied solidarities undermined them.…”

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‘Fall girl’: Vertical evacuation and the aesthetics of emergency

Adey

2022

Urban Studies

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When the Conservative Member of Parliament and Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg complained on London’s LBC radio that the 72 victims of the 2017 Grenfell fire did not use common sense and simply leave the building, and that he could not understand how it had ‘anything to do with race or class’, he fell into a trap which is now at least 150 years old. This has seen the art and act of evacuating – especially tall buildings – blamed on the evacuees themselves. It is also revealing of an aesthetics of erasure which silences a classed, raced and gendered politics which has served to render certain subjects and bodies as not only victims, but culpable. The vertical evacuee has been considered too slow, too big, too indecisive, too passionate, too weak, too much, too many – too inadequate. In this paper, and in building on a wider politics of verticality and mobility, I pull on several threads of the gendered and raced geographies of high-rise vertical evacuation focusing particularly on the solidaristic movements and expressions of the workers. The paper explores the history of tall building evacuations, focusing on early high-rise factory fires, their investigation, and subsequent changes to fire regulation, building technologies and working practices in North America which affected predominantly young, female and migrant working labour.

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‘Fall girl’: Vertical evacuation and the aesthetics of emergency

Adey

2022

Urban Studies

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“…Black women's identity-based statuses in the U.S. are-and have been-complicated by violent and oppressive contexts. Snyder (2015) noted that Black African women sometimes died by suicide to avoid enslavement-acts of resistance-and enslavers attempted to prevent such deaths to protect their economic interests. Such interplay between Black female deaths of resistance and White enslaver' dehumanizing greed contributed to Black women's status as essential yet expendable.…”

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Being Essential and Feeling Expendable: Black Female Clinicians’ Narratives About Working in the U.S. During Dual Pandemics

Hightower

2024

AM J QUALITATIVE RES

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<i>Historically and in the present day, Black women’s positionality in the U.S. has paradoxically situated them in a society where they are both intrinsically essential and treated as expendable. This positionality, known as gendered racism, manifests commonly in professional environments and results in myriad harms. In response, Black women have developed, honed, and practiced a range of coping styles to mitigate the insidious effects of gendered racism. While often effective in the short-term, these techniques frequently complicate Black women’s well-being. For Black female clinicians who experience gendered racism and work on the frontlines of community mental health, myriad bio-psycho-social-spiritual harms compound. This project provided an opportunity for Black female clinicians from across the U.S. to share their experiences during the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and anti-Black violence. I conducted in-depth interviews with clinicians (n=14) between the ages of 30 and 58. Using the Listening Guide voice-centered approach to data generation and analysis, I identified four voices to help answer this project’s central question: How do you experience being a Black female clinician in the U.S.? The voices of self, pride, vigilance, and mediating narrated the complex ways participants experienced their workplaces. This complexity seemed to be context-specific, depending on whether the clinicians worked in predominantly White workplaces (PWW), a mix of PWW and private practice, or private practice exclusively. Participants who worked only in PWW experienced the greatest stress, oppression, and burnout risk, while participants who worked exclusively in private practice reported more joy, more authenticity, and more job satisfaction. These findings have implications for mentoring, supporting, and retaining Black female clinicians.</i>

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Introduction - The Problem of Suicide in North American Slavery

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‘Fall girl’: Vertical evacuation and the aesthetics of emergency

‘Fall girl’: Vertical evacuation and the aesthetics of emergency

Being Essential and Feeling Expendable: Black Female Clinicians’ Narratives About Working in the U.S. During Dual Pandemics

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