Crossing waters, crossing worlds

Sharon Patricia Holland is Townsend Ludington Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of The Erotic Life of Racism and Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity, published by Duke University Press.

Tiya Miles is a historian who writes about American history and the lives of Black women. Her book, All That She Carried, won the National Book Award for its detailed account of slavery through a mother's few possessions. She makes history accessible and immediate.