Keisha-Khan Y. Perry papers (Ms.2021.002)

This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, scholar of race, gender, and politics in the Americas with a particular focus on Black women's activism, urban geography and questions of citizenship, feminist theories, intellectual history and disciplinary formations. Materials include notebooks, correspondence, conference materials, draft writings, and print material. This collection dates from 1981 to 2023 and is arranged into 9 series.

Series 1, BIOGRAPHICAL, 1997 – 2018, includes articles about Perry, awards she has received, and notebooks with handwritten notes from her time in graduate school. Topics within these notebooks include "Critical Race Theory," "politics and incarceration," and notes from a trip to Mexico. Original folder titles are in quotations, all other folder titles were created by the processor. This series is arranged alphabetically by record type.

Series 2, ADMINISTRATIVE, 1998 – 2023, includes professional correspondence, event materials from Brown University's Africana Department, and semester schedules. This series is arranged alphabetically by record type.

Series 3, CONFERENCES, 1981 – 2023, includes programs, schedules, and flyers, for various conferences that Perry attended. Conferences include "Aesthetics of Blackness: What it Means to be Black in America Today," "Cotas e Outras Ações Afirmativas para o Negro no Mercado de Trabalho," and "Mapping for Change? Cartographies of the Urban: Intersectionality and Climate Change Adaptation." This series is arranged alphabetically by conference title.

Series 4, TEACHING, 2009 – 2023, includes syllabi, hand written notes, and annotated readings, for courses taught by Perry. Courses include "Africana Studies and Interdisciplinarity," "Theorizing the Black Diaspora," and "Transnational and Diasporic Feminisms." This series is arranged alphabetically by course title and then chronologically by year.

Series 5, WRITINGS AND RELATED, 2003 – 2023, is arranged into 2 sub-series.

Series 5, sub-series 1, WRITINGS BY PERRY, 2003 – 2023, includes typed drafts of articles, books, and talks, by Perry. Titles include Black Women Against the Land Grab, "Daqui não Saio, Daqui Ninguém me Tira," and "Afrikin-Black History Month." Also included are flyers for Perry's talks. This sub-series is arranged alphabetically by record type then by title.

Series 5, sub-series 2, WRITINGS BY OTHERS, 2003 – 2023, includes photocopies and printouts of articles and chapters by other scholars that are annotated by Perry. Titles include "Color Blindness, History, and the Law" by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, "Fashioning Obligation: Indebted Servitude and the Fetters of Slavery" by Saidiya Hartman, "'Fear of a Black Planet:' Rap Music and Black Cultural Politics in the 1990s" by Tricia Rose, "New Sciences: Cyborg Feminism and the Methodology of the Oppressed" by Chela Sandoval, and "Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in Twentieth Century Cultures" by Ann Laura Stoler. This sub-series is arranged alphabetically by author's last name then by title.

Series 6, SUBJECT FILES, 1999 – 2020, primarily includes booklets, pamphlets, and handwritten notes from Otros Saberes, a section of the Latin American Studies Association for which Perry has served as a research consultant, written papers, and given lectures. Topics including "social policy in Brazil" and "Women's Studies" are also represented in this series. This series is arranged alphabetically by topic then by record type.

Series 7, PRINT MATERIAL, 1988 – 2023, includes booklets, magazines, newsletters, newspapers, and pamphlets. Titles include "Caros Amigos," "Povos Indigenas e Meio Ambiente Amapá e Norte do Pará," and "Viver Melhor: Programa de Melhorias Urbanas e Habitacionais." This series is arranged alphabetically by record type then by title.

Series 8, ELECTRONIC RECORDS, 1998 – 2007, contains cassette tapes, CDs, and VHS tapes. Titles include "Angela Davis," "Grupo de Mujeres," and "Claiming Open Spaces." This series is arranged alphabetically by record type then by title written on the carrier.

Series 9, RESTRICTED, 2001 – 2023, contains correspondence, handwritten notes, and annotated dissertation materials of Ph.D. students whom Perry advised. This series is closed until January 1, 2070, after which date all materials in this series will become available. This series is arranged alphabetically by student's last name.