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NPR's WUNC Interview on Legal Fictions: "U.S. racial identity is the sustained product of U.S. law." 

Legal Fictions is a bold declaration that the black body is thoroughly bound by law and an unflinchingly look at the implications of that claim.

"...a remarkable example of productive interdisciplinarity from which all sorts of readers will learn a great deal."
Randall Kennedy. Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard University. Author of The Persistence of the Color Line.

"...a culmination (if not the culmination) of Holloway's rich corpus of criticism and theory.... This book is Holloway at her best: intelligent and thoughtful, fully in command of the critical vocabularies that she introduces, and thoroughly knowledgeable...."
Farah Jasmine Griffin. Professor of English, Comp Literature, African American Studies, Columbia University. Author of Harlem Nocturne - 


                              2016-2017


  • 2017. June 26-28 ~ London. Keynote. Global Toni Morrison. University of Greenwich www.gre.ac.uk/ach/events/globalmorrison/programme
  • 2017. June 16 ~ Smithsonian NMAAHC, Washington DC. Passed On: African American Mourning Stories-A Memorial. 
  • 2016. Dec 8 ~ @DukeU Melissa Harris-Perry & Karla Holloway. #WordWork: A Curated Conversation on Race the Academy bit.ly/2oEP0MJ
  • 2016. Oct 20-23 ~ University of Bamberg, Germany "The Carceral State-Private Bodies, Public Actors" 
        
                       SELECTED ARCHIVE...​

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Private Bodies persuasively argues for a cultural ethics... Her discussion of the events at Memorial Medical Center after Katrina will become a classic...." 
Baruch A. Brody. Leon Jaworski Professor,  Baylor College of Medicine

"...an illuminating meditation on the social construction of personal identity.... This is a subtle, challenging book." Robert A. Burt. Bickel Professor of Law, Yale U

"...as powerful as it is beautifully written. ...She reminds us, with sometimes piercing insight, just how critical gender and race can be in making meaning...." Ruth R. Faden. Director. Berman Institute of Bioethics & Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics.  Johns Hopkins U