ISBN:
0275938859
,
9780275938857
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 173 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Disfigured Images : The Historical Assault on Afro-American Women
DDC:
305.4
Keywords:
Women, Black Historiography
;
African American women Historiography
Abstract:
Much of the material unearthed by this book is ugly, states historiographer Patricia Morton who exposes profoundly dehumanizing constructions of reality embedded in American scholarship as it has attempted to render the history of the Afro-American woman. Focusing on the scholarly literature of fact rather than on fictional or popular portrayals, Disfigured Images explores the telling--and frequent mis-telling--of the story of black women during a century of American historiography beginning in the late 19th century and extending to the present. Morton finds that during this period, a large bo
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Myths of Black Womanhood; 2. A Century Ago: The Foundations of Sexism-Racism; 3. The Age of Jim Crow: White and Black Stories of Slave Women; 4. The All-Mother Vision of W.E.B. Du Bois; 5. Slave Women of the Sociological Imagination; 6. Prefabricated Women of the Mid-Twentieth Century; 7. The Invisible, Shrinking Woman; 8. Black Studies/Women's Studies: Discovering Black Women's History?; 9. Rediscovering the Black Family: New and Old Images of Motherhood; 10. Toward Discovering Slave Women; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-166) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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