{"id":34,"date":"2021-10-05T19:18:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T19:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damarishill.com\/about\/"},"modified":"2021-10-10T18:19:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T18:19:14","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/damarishill.com\/?page_id=34","title":{"rendered":"A Bound Woman Is A Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nominated for an NAACP Image Award
A\u00a0Publishers Weekly<\/em>\u00a0Top 10 History Title for the season
Booklist<\/em>‘s Top 10 Diverse Nonfiction titles for the year
BookRiot<\/em>‘s “50 Must-Read Poetry Collections”
Most Anticipated Books of the Year–The Rumpus, Nylon<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A revelatory work in the tradition of Claudia Rankine’s\u00a0Citizen<\/em>, DaMaris Hill’s searing and powerful narrative-in-verse bears witness to American women of color burdened by incarceration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For black American women, the experience of being bound has taken many forms: from the bondage of slavery to the Reconstruction-era criminalization of women; from the brutal constraints of Jim Crow to our own era’s prison industrial complex, where between 1980 and 2014, the number of incarcerated women increased by 700%.* For those women who lived and died resisting the dehumanization of confinement–physical, social, intellectual–the threat of being bound was real, constant, and lethal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nominated for an NAACP Image AwardA\u00a0Publishers Weekly\u00a0Top 10 History Title for the seasonBooklist‘s Top 10 Diverse Nonfiction titles for the yearBookRiot‘s “50 Must-Read Poetry Collections”Most Anticipated Books of the Year–The Rumpus, Nylon A revelatory work in the tradition of Claudia Rankine’s\u00a0Citizen, DaMaris Hill’s searing and powerful narrative-in-verse bears witness to American women of color burdened by incarceration. For black American women, the experience of being bound has taken many forms: from the bondage of slavery to the Reconstruction-era criminalization of … Continue reading “A Bound Woman Is A Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damarishill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damarishill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damarishill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damarishill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damarishill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/damarishill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/damarishill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damarishill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damarishill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}