ISBN:
0813052122
,
9780813052120
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Fox, Regis M Resistance reimagined
DDC:
305.48/896073
Keywords:
African American women History
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African American women Political activity
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History
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African American women civil rights workers History
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African Americans Civil rights
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History
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African American women political activists History
;
African Americans Social life and customs
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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LITERARY CRITICISM ; Women Authors
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African American women
;
African American women civil rights workers
;
African American women political activists
;
African American women ; Political activity
;
African Americans ; Civil rights
;
African Americans ; Social life and customs
;
History
Abstract:
Prologue: Naming black women's ideology critique -- Introduction: Resistance and legitimacy -- "They won't believe what i say": theorizing freedom as an economy of violence -- The production of "emancipation": race, ritual, and the reconstitution of the antebellum order -- "Wondering under which head i come": sounding Anna Julia Cooper's Fin-de-Siècle song -- "Mammy ain't nobody name": Power, privilege and the bodying forth of resistance -- Conclusion: Roll call.
Abstract:
The book analyzes black women's engagement with the liberal problematic--the gap between democratic promise and dispossession--as a form of resistance
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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