{"id":6317,"date":"2022-12-16T17:37:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T17:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=6317"},"modified":"2022-12-16T17:37:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T17:37:40","slug":"chira-wins-article-prize-from-the-berkshire-conference-of-women-historians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2022\/12\/16\/chira-wins-article-prize-from-the-berkshire-conference-of-women-historians\/","title":{"rendered":"Chira Wins Article Prize from the\u00a0Berkshire Conference of Women Historians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cover of the September 2021 volume of The American Historical Review<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Dr. Adriana Chira<\/a>, Assistant Professor of History, was recently awarded an article prize from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians<\/a>. The prize recognizes Chira’s 2021 article in The American Historical Review<\/em>, titled “Freedom with Local Bonds: Custom and Manumission in the Age of Emancipation<\/a>.” The annual award<\/a> goes to the best article in any field by a woman scholar. The prize committee praised the article\u2019s \u201ccreativity in scholarship and expression\u201d and \u201cfound Chira\u2019s work to be innovative in its approach and exploration of those seeking manumission from slavery.\u201d\u00a0 The report continued: \u201cConsidering social networks as a ‘resource’ in the manumission process offers a new facet for understanding this matrix. Chira also considers the grey area between enslaved and free, building on scholarship considering the nature of identity and freedom among enslaved peoples.\u201d Read the abstract from the article below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, across Latin America, expansive rural communities of African descent forged freedom from below in the shadows of highly exploitative extractive economies. Their efforts push us to reconsider established genealogies of the age of emancipation. Freedom through conditional manumission and enslaved people\u2019s reliance on social networks to obtain it opened the door to custom inside first-instance district courts in such areas. Judges turned to vernacular understandings of rights and obligations as they clarified the ambiguous statuses of the conditionally freed for which written law offered few provisions. Through manumission and legal actions to defend freedom, peasants of African descent on the margins of the global economic system grounded their rights in state structures as local custom. Black freedom within such territories represents a mode of community governance that remains invisible if studied by focusing on mobility or nation building. Seen from a place such as Santiago de Cuba, the nineteenth century was not just a time when Africans and Afro-descendants pursued social inclusion through ideologies of national citizenship and diasporic connections. It was also a time of freedom through membership in local communities, which women and families were especially instrumental in forging.<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Adriana Chira, Assistant Professor of History, was recently awarded an article prize from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. The prize recognizes Chira’s 2021 article in The American Historical Review, titled “Freedom with Local Bonds: Custom and Manumission in the Age of Emancipation.” The annual award goes to the best article in any field […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-faculty","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}