BALSA x Law Women: Black History Month Book Talk with Professor Kelli Moore

Dive into the pages of Professor Kelli Moore’s “Legal Spectatorship: Slavery and the Visual Culture of Domestic Violence,” a book that follows the political origins of the concept of domestic violence through visual culture in the United States at a book talk, hosted by BALSA and Law Women on Wednesday, February 21, at 5:00-6:00pm in the Lester Pollack Colloquium Room (on the 9th floor of Furman Hall).

Tracing its appearance in Article IV of the Constitution, slave narratives, police notation, cybernetic theories of affect, criminal trials, and the “look” of the battered woman, Moore contends that domestic violence refers to more than violence between intimate partners—it denotes the mechanisms of racial hierarchy and oppression that undergird republican government in the United States. 

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