ISBN:
9780252099571
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0252099575
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource
Edition:
Second edition
Series Statement:
Women, gender, and sexuality in American history
DDC:
305.488960730753
Keywords:
African American women History
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Washington (D.C.)
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Women, Black Race identity
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African American women Social life and customs
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Washington (D.C.)
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African American women Political activity
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History
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20th century
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Washington (D.C.)
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Women Suffrage
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History
;
20th century
;
Washington (D.C.)
;
Women History
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Washington (D.C.)
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Salons History
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20th century
;
Washington (D.C.)
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Washington (D.C.) Social life and customs
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20th century
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Washington (D.C.) Politics and government
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20th century
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Washington (D.C.) Intellectual life
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20th century
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Electronic books
Abstract:
"This project examines New Negro womanhood in Washington, DC through various examples of African American women challenging white supremacy, intra-racial sexism, and heteropatriarchy. Treva Lindsey defines New Negro womanhood as a mosaic, authorial, and constitutive individual and collective identity inhabited by African American women seeking to transform themselves and their communities through demanding autonomy and equality for African American women. The New Negro woman invested in upending racial, gender, and class inequality and included race women, blues women, playwrights, domestics, teachers, mothers, sex workers, policy workers, beauticians, fortune tellers, suffragists, same-gender couples, artists, activists, and innovators. From these differing but interconnected African American women's spaces comes an urban, cultural history of the early twentieth century struggles for freedom and equality that marked the New Negro era in the nation's capital. Washington provided a unique space in which such a vision of equality could emerge and sustain. In the face of the continued pernicious effects of Jim Crow racism and perpetual and institutional racism and sexism, Lindsey demonstrates how African American women in Washington made significant strides towards a more equal and dynamic urban center. Witnessing the possibility of social and political change empowered New Negro women of Washington to struggle for the kind of city, nation, and world they envisioned in political, social, and cultural ways."--Provided by publisher
Note:
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