About the Author

Maggie Montesinos Sale is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Assistant Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University.

Reviews

"The Slumbering Volcano theorizes the discourse of nationalism, natural rights, and race in a refreshingly undogmatic manner, making a splendid contribution to the growing body of theory on race, masculinity, and national identity formation." - Carolyn Karcher, author of The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child, published by Duke University Press "Sale combines an impressive array of historical material with keen analytic skills, an attention to the larger picture with a sensitivity to the nuances of language and rhetoric. The result is an original reading of how and why enslaved people were unable to tell their own stories." - Priscilla Wald, University of Washington