ISBN:
9780813056586
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 191 pages
,
illustrations
,
24 cm
DDC:
305.48/896073
Keywords:
African American women History
;
African American women Political activity
;
History
;
African American women civil rights workers History
;
African Americans Civil rights
;
History
;
African American women political activists History
;
African Americans Social life and customs
;
USA
;
Schwarze Frau
;
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
;
Aktivistin
;
Politische Publizistik
;
Geschichte 1859-1892
Abstract:
The book analyzes black women's engagement with the liberal problematic--the gap between democratic promise and dispossession--as a form of resistance
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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