ISBN:
9780252099540
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
,
Illustrations (black and white).
Series Statement:
Women, gender, and sexuality in American history
DDC:
305.48/896073
Keywords:
National Association of Colored Women (U
;
Geschichte 1880-1980
;
Schwarze
;
Frau
;
Intellektueller
;
Geistesleben
;
Feminismus
;
African American women Intellectual life 19th century
;
African American women Intellectual life 20th century
;
USA
Abstract:
'Beyond Respectability' charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. Cooper looks at the far-reaching intellectual achievements of female thinkers and activists like Anna Julia Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, Fannie Barrier Williams, Pauli Murray, and Toni Cade Bambara. Cooper delves into the processes that transformed these women and others into racial leadership figures, including long-overdue discussions of their theoretical output and personal experiences. As Cooper shows, their body of work critically reshaped our understandings of race and gender discourse. It also confronted entrenched ideas of how - and who - produced racial knowledge.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2017
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.5406/illinois/9780252040993.001.0001
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040993.001.0001
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