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She co-wrote a classic, The Heart of the Race, and helped draw attention to overlooked atrocities – including racism in schools, police brutality and deaths in custody ....
Yes Magazine shares an excerpt from Stella Dadzi’s Yes Magazine. Many thanks to Peter Jordens for all related links.] In her new book, A Kick in the Belly, Afrocentric British historian Stella Dadzie describes how her research into slavery-era documents reveals the lives of enslaved Black women in the Caribbean colonies and the American South. The phrase “kicked in the belly” summarizes the abuse enslaved women endured but they also resisted, rebelled, and kicked back. “These women’s response,” she writes, “can be seen as a metaphorical kick in the belly for those who tried and failed to dehumanize them.” ....
The Everyday Resistance of Enslaved Women Photo by Education Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Studying history is like detective work especially when the rebellion of Black women has been left out of the story. In her new book, A Kick in the Belly , Afrocentric British historian Stella Dadzie describes how her research into slavery-era documents reveals the lives of enslaved Black women in the Caribbean colonies and the American South. The phrase “kicked in the belly” summarizes the abuse enslaved women endured but they also resisted, rebelled, and kicked back. “These women’s response,” she writes, “can be seen as a metaphorical kick in the belly for those who tried and failed to dehumanize them.” ....
Is best known for her co-authorship of The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s lives in Britain, which won the 1985 Martin Luther King Award for Literature. She is a ....