ISBN:
1566398797
,
1566398800
,
9781566398794
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 194 p)
,
22 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Mapping racisms
Parallel Title:
Print version Dark Continent Of Our Bodies : Black Feminism & Politics Of Respectability
DDC:
305.42/0973
Keywords:
African American women Intellectual life
;
Black nationalism
;
Feminists
;
Feminism History
;
American literature African American authors
;
History and criticism
;
African American women
;
United States Race relations
Abstract:
In this provocative book, a black lesbian feminist looks at black feminism -- its roots, its role, and its implications. From Charles Darwin and nineteenth-century racism to black nationalism and the Nation of Islam, from Baptist women's groups to James Baldwin, E. Frances White takes on one institution after another as she re-centers the role of black women in the United States' intellectual heritage. White presents identity politics as a complex activity, with entangled branches of race and gender, of invisibility and voyeurism, of defiance and passivity and conformism. White's powerful intr
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Black Feminist Interventions; 2. The Dark Continent of Our Bodies: Constructing Science, Race, and Womanhood in the Nineteenth Century; 3. Africa on My Mind: Gender, Counterdiscourse, and African-American Nationalism; 4. The Evidence of Things Not Seen: The Alchemy of Race and Sexuality; Bibliography.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-194)
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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