She was a professor in the Department of English and African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley (19922006), prior to joining the faculty of. Saidiya Hartman received a BA (1984) from Wesleyan University and a PhD (1992) from Yale University. If they couldn’t they went to court, where it was the word of some dirty grafting cop against theirs. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (Hardcover). Hartman’s most recent book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments. Women like Mom who worked as maids, cleaned office buildings, were picked up on the street on their way home from work and charged with prostitution. She has been a MacArthur Fellow, Guggenheim. Holiday later recalled how labour and policing worked together to enforce the idea that Black women were not free: ‘Those were rotten days. Saidiya Hartman is the author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Lose Your Mother, Scenes of Subjection. Young Black American women developed numerous ways of navigating, challenging and evading the zealous policing of social reformers, state officials and brutal law enforcement officers in the early decades of the 20th century. Her gamble worked: the judge sentenced her to four months in the workhouse rather than the three years in a reformatory usually assigned to younger girls. Holiday, in fact aged fourteen at the time, already knew that sentences for adults convicted of actual crimes were often less severe that those handed down to wayward minors. When Billie Holiday was arrested in a disorderly house in Harlem in 1929, she gave her name as Eleanor Fagan and claimed to be twenty-one.
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