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Sharon Block

Sharon Block

Sharon Block is professor of history at the University of California–Irvine and a 2020–21 fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She works in colonial North American history with specializations in the history of sexuality, race, and the body, as well as digital humanities more broadly.  icon

Sex, Race, and Feminist Connection

By Sharon Block

History, Ann Stoler showed, is not just political action, disconnected from daily domestic acts. Intimate relations are worthy of serious study.

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