These vernaculars include reference to efficiency and outcomes, academic disciplines, and the discourses surrounding the prison nation. This includes a blend of administrative, logical, and political rhetorics alongside various vernaculars produced by our experiences working within higher education programs in prison, institutions of higher education outside prison, and activist networks exposing and seeking to transform the connections between the prison and the University/college as institutions. This event took place on Monday, March 4, 2019.Meiner/Harkins: Our own response to the problem of “professionalization” is to mix the languages used across the spaces and modes of labor related to higher education programs inside prisons. Weheliye, and Tina Campt joined Saidiya Hartman to discuss this book’s vital contributions. Scholars Daphne Brooks, Aimee Meredith Cox, Macarena Gomez-Barris, Alexander G. Combining historical analysis and literary imagination, Hartman recovers radical aspirations and resurgent desires. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Hartman narrates the story of this radical transformation of black intimate and social life, crediting young black women with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. They refused to labor like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of work. Longing and desire fueled their experiments in how to live. They cleaved to and cast off lovers, exchanged sex to subsist, and revised the meaning of marriage. Hartman’s book explores the ways young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship indifferent to the dictates of respectability, and outside the bounds of law.
A social revolution unfolded in the city. In the early twentieth century, young black women were in open rebellion. Saidiya Hartman’s highly anticipated new book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (Norton, February 2019) wrestles with the question, “What is a free life?”
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