Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Florvil, Tiffany N., Kaiama L. Glover, Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, Katherine M. Marino, Robin Mitchell, Jacqueline-Bethel Mogoué and Samantha Pinto. “New Directions in Feminism and Global Race Studies: A Book Conversation.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 47, no. 4 (Summer 2022): 1013-1040. https://doi.org/10.1086/718901.
“‘Ourika Mania’: Interrogating Race, Class, Space, and Place in Early 19th-Century France,” “Black Paris and the Lived Experiences of Black Subjects,” African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, Volume 10, No. 2, (2015) 2017.
“L’Affaire de la Négresse Henriette Lucille: Race, Gender, and Social Status in Eighteenth-Century France,” Transnational Subjects: History, Society and Culture, Volume 2, Number 1 (April 2012), 21-48.
“Manifestos, Declarations, and Statements,” Praxis: Journal of Gender & Cultural Critiques, Volume 22, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring & Fall, 2010, 57-59 (57-104).
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
« Sarah Baartmann » et la construction de la francité, » Marianne est aussi noire. Luttes occultées pour l'égalité (Paris: édition du Seuil, October, 2024).
“A History of Black Women in Nineteenth-Century France,” in The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories, ed. Janell Hobson (Milton: Taylor & Francis Group), 2021.
«Répliques sismiques de la Révolution Haïtienne en France: Influences de femmes noires sur la production de la francité,» Les populations noires en France, une histoire mosaïque (Paris: Editions Vendémiaire, forthcoming).
“Shaking the Racial and Gender Foundations of France: The Influences of ‘Sarah Baartmann’ in the Cultural Production of Frenchness,” Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2015 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press), 2018.
“Another Means of Understanding the Gaze: Sarah Bartmann and the Development of Nineteenth-Century French National Identity,” They Called Her Hottentot: The Art, Science, and Fiction of Sarah Baartman, eds. Deborah Willis and Carla Williams (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010), 32-46.
Media
Mitchell, Robin. “Bringing Ourselves Along with Us: The Realities of Historical Writing,” The Women’s History Network blog (blog), June 28, 2021, https://womenshistorynetwork.org/bringing-ourselves-along-with-us-the-realities-of-historical-writing/.
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Vénus Noire
“Vénus Noire is a groundbreaking study of how, despite their relatively few numbers in metropolitan France, black women were weighted with powerful symbolic valence.”
– SUE PEABODY
