The Sweet Taste of Empire with Kim Hall

Welcome back to The Race and Regency Pod!Today, we are joined by Dr. Kim Hall, who is Lucyle Hook Professor of English and Professor of Africana Studies at Barnard College.Professor Hall's research and teaching cover Renaissance/Early Modern Literature and Culture, Critical Race Theory, Black Feminist Studies, Slavery Studies, Visual Culture, Food Studies, and Digital Humanities. She was born in Baltimore and holds a doctorate in sixteenth and seventeenth-century English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania.  Her first book, Things of Darkness, was published in 1996 by Cornell University Press. Her second book, Othello: Texts and Contexts(Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, was published in 2006) In this podcast she talks to us about her most recent publication Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo-Caribbean, which examines the roles of race, aesthetics and gender in the Anglo-Caribbean sugar trade during the seventeenth century.  She is also an avid quilter who was named “Quilter of the Month” at the Seminole Sampler Quilt Shop in Baltimore, Maryland.In this episode, she will also tell us about the Weaving Dreams Exhibition at Barnard College that showcases handmade quilts and other textile artifacts selected from the Dr. Hall’s oeuvre of quilt art.To learn more about Dr. Kim Hall's book The Sweet Taste of Empire, visit https://www.pennpress.org/9781512827866/the-sweet-taste-of-empire/To learn more about the Weaving Dreams Exhibition, visit https://library.barnard.edu/weaving-dreams-exhibitionTo learn more about the Race and Regency Lab, visit https://www.raceandregency.org/The Race and Regency Pod works as a dynamic sonic space to lend an ear to all things Race and Regency. Using the intimacy, accessibility, and fluidity of the medium, this podcast brings together the public, artists, curators, librarians, scholars, and cultural critics who share their passion for questions of race in this period. Unlike ideas and engagements that can often stay confined behind academic paywalls, this podcast facilitates space for community members, and connoisseurs of the Regency era to think together and build together. Listening with and to a range of people who speak in varied accents and tones, The Race and Regency Pod works as a practice in embodied scholarship. We imagine what enthusiasm and engagement sound like when directed towards sharing, community building, resistance, and self-expression. This podcast will house diverse conversations that expand the conception of the Regency era thematically, geographically, and temporally, by considering how we inherit formulations of race from this period and engage with them now.To learn more about the Race and Regency Lab, visit https://www.raceandregency.org/The Race and Regency Pod works as a dynamic sonic space to lend an ear to all things Race and Regency. Using the intimacy, accessibility, and fluidity of the medium, this podcast brings together the public, artists, curators, librarians, scholars, and cultural critics who share their passion for questions of race in this period. Unlike ideas and engagements that can often stay confined behind academic paywalls, this podcast facilitates space for community members and connoisseurs of the Regency era to think together and build together. Listening with and to a range of people who speak in varied accents and tones, The Race and Regency Pod works as a practice in embodied scholarship. We imagine what enthusiasm and engagement sound like when directed towards sharing, community building, resistance, and self-expression. This podcast will house diverse conversations that expand the conception of the Regency era thematically, geographically, and temporally, by considering how we inherit formulations of race from this period and engage with them now.