ISBN:
9780252099014
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025209901X
Language:
English
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Online Ressource
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Print version Wright, Nazera Sadiq, 1974- author Black girlhood in the nineteenth century
DDC:
305.89607309034
Keywords:
African American girls History
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19th century
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African Americans Social conditions
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19th century
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African Americans Politics and government
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19th century
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Political culture History
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19th century
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United States
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African Americans Intellectual life
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19th century
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American literature African American authors
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History and criticism
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Politics and literature History
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19th century
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United States
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African Americans in literature
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Girls in literature
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African Americans in literature
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Girls in literature
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African Americans Social conditions 19th century
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African Americans Politics and government 19th century
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Political culture History 19th century
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African Americans Intellectual life 19th century
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American literature African American authors
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History and criticism
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Politics and literature History 19th century
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African American girls History 19th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM ; American ; African American
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Children's Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; African American Studies
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African American girls
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African Americans in literature
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African Americans ; Intellectual life
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African Americans ; Politics and government
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African Americans ; Social conditions
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American literature ; African American authors
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Girls in literature
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Political culture
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Politics and literature
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Race relations
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Literatur
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Mädchen
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Schwarze
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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History
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United States Race relations
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History
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19th century
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United States
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United States Race relations 19th century
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History
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USA
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United States
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Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc
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History
Abstract:
"Long portrayed as a masculine endeavor, the African American struggle for progress often found expression through an unlikely literary figure: the black girl. Nazera Sadiq Wright uses heavy archival research on a wide range of texts about African American girls to explore this understudied phenomenon. As Wright shows, the figure of the black girl in African American literature provided a powerful avenue for exploring issues like domesticity, femininity, and proper conduct. The characters' actions, however fictional, became a rubric for African American citizenship and racial progress. At the same time, their seeming dependence and insignificance allegorized the unjust treatment of African Americans. Wright reveals fascinating girls who, possessed of a premature knowing and wisdom beyond their years, projected a courage and resiliency that made them exemplary representations of the project of racial advance and citizenship"--Publisher description
Abstract:
Introduction: Toward a Genealogy of Black Girlhood -- Black Girlhood in the Early Black Press -- Youthful Girls and Prematurely Knowing Girls : Antebellum Black Girlhood -- "Teach your Daughters" : Black Girlhood and Mrs. N. F. Mossell's Advice Column in the New York Freeman -- Moving the Boundaries : Black Girlhood and Public Careers in Frances E.W. Harper's Trial and Triumph -- Black Girlhood in Early-Twentieth-Century Black Conduct Books -- Epilogue: The Changing Same? : Next-Generation Black Girlhood
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