Participant Info
- First Name
- Charlene J.
- Last Name
- Fletcher
- Country
- United States
- State
- IN Indiana
- chfletch@indiana.edu
- Affiliation
- Indiana University
- Website URL
- www.charlenejfletcher.com
- Keywords
- African American, U.S. South, Women and Gender, Carceral Studies, Mass Incarceration, Trauma
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
My research interests include 19th and early 20th century U.S. history — antebellum America to the Progressive Era — with a focus on intersections of race, crime, and gender.
My current research explores the experiences of confined African-American women in Kentucky from Reconstruction to the Progressive Era, specifically illuminating the lives of confined black women by examining places other than carceral locales as arenas of confinement, including mental health asylums and domestic spaces. I seek to explore how these women both defied and defined confinement through their incarceration, interactions with public, social and political entities of the period, as well as how they challenged Victorian ideas of race and femininity and shaped prison and political reform in Kentucky.
- Recent Publications
Book Reviews
Fletcher-Brown, C. Review of Liberty’s Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America, by Jen Manion, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 115, no. 3 (Summer 2017): 419-421.
Web Publications
Kentucky Historical Society
Fletcher-Brown, Charlene. “Early Stories of Domestic Violence Raise Awareness, Foster Healing.” The Blog of the Kentucky Historical Society. November 4, 2016. http://history.ky.gov/early-stories-of-domestic-violence-raise-awareness-foster-healing/.
1914-1918-Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Fletcher-Brown, C. “The Palmer Raids” 1914-1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War. http://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/Palmer_Raids(2014)
Fletcher-Brown, C. “U.S. Race Riots” 1914-1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War. http://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/U.S._Race_Riots (2014)
BlackPast.org – Multiple Submissions
Fletcher-Brown, C. Significant People in African American History, BlackPast.org. http://www.blackpast.org/contributor/charlene-j-fletcher-brown. (2015)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @ochosidaughter
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Local & Regional, Race, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Slavery, Women
