Black Women In Nineteenth Century American Life
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Black Women In Nineteenth Century American Life
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Author : Bert James Loewenberg
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01
Black Women In Nineteenth Century American Life written by Bert James Loewenberg and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Social Science categories.
Black Women In Nineteenth Century American Life
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Black Women In Nineteenth Century American Life written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with African American women categories.
The Portable Nineteenth Century African American Women Writers
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Author : Hollis Robbins
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-07-25
The Portable Nineteenth Century African American Women Writers written by Hollis Robbins and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-25 with Fiction categories.
A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2017. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an extraordinary range of voices offering the expressions of African American women in print before, during, and after the Civil War. Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this collection comprises work from forty-nine writers arranged into sections of memoir, poetry, and essays on feminism, education, and the legacy of African American women writers. Many of these pieces engage with social movements like abolition, women’s suffrage, temperance, and civil rights, but the thematic center is the intellect and personal ambition of African American women. The diverse selection includes well-known writers like Sojourner Truth, Hannah Crafts, and Harriet Jacobs, as well as lesser-known writers like Ella Sheppard, who offers a firsthand account of life in the world-famous Fisk Jubilee Singers. Taken together, these incredible works insist that the writing of African American women writers be read, remembered, and addressed. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
A Respectable Woman
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Author : Jane E. Dabel
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2008
A Respectable Woman written by Jane E. Dabel and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
In the nineteenth century, New York City underwent a tremendous demographic transformation driven by European immigration, the growth of a native-born population, and the expansion of one of the largest African American communities in the North. New York's free blacks were extremely politically active, lobbying for equal rights at home and an end to Southern slavery. As their activism increased, so did discrimination against them, most brutally illustrated by bloody attacks during the 1863 New York City Draft Riots. The struggle for civil rights did not extend to equal gender roles, and black male leaders encouraged women to remain in the domestic sphere, serving as caretakers, moral educators, and nurses to their families and community. Yet as Jane E. Dabel demonstrates, separate spheres were not a reality for New York City's black people, who faced dire poverty, a lopsided sex ratio, racialized violence, and a high mortality rate, all of which conspired to prevent men from gaining respectable employment and political clout. Consequently, many black women came out of the home and into the streets to work, build networks with other women, and fight against racial injustice. A Respectable Woman reveals the varied and powerful lives led by black women, who, despite the exhortations of male reformers, occupied public roles as gender and race reformers.
Black Women In New South Literature And Culture
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Author : Sherita L. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-09-11
Black Women In New South Literature And Culture written by Sherita L. Johnson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-11 with History categories.
Using the "the Negro Problem" in African American literature as a point of departure, this book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans, specifically those in the South. Although the South has been one of the most enduring sites of criticism in American Studies and in American literary history, Johnson argues that it is impossible to consider what the "South" and what "southernness" mean as cultural references without looking at how black women have contributed to and contested any unified definition of that region. Johnson challenges the homogeneity of a "white" South and southern cultural identity by recognizing how fictional and historical black women are underacknowledged agents of cultural change. Johnson regards the South as a cultural region that (re)constructs black womanhood, but she also considers how black womanhood have transformed the South. Specialists in nineteenth and twentieth century American literature will find this book a necessary addition, as will scholars of African American Literature and History.
Black Female Intellectuals In Nineteenth Century America
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Author : Rebecca J. Fraser
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-12-30
Black Female Intellectuals In Nineteenth Century America written by Rebecca J. Fraser and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-30 with History categories.
Drawing on letters, personal testimony, works of art, novels, and historic Black newspapers, this book is an interdisciplinary exploration of Black women’s contributions to the intellectual life of nineteenth-century America. Black Female Intellectuals in Nineteenth Century America reconceptualizes the idea of what the term "intellectual" means through its discussions of both familiar and often forgotten Black women, including Edmonia Lewis, Harriet Powers, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman, amongst others. This re-envisioning brings those who have previously been excluded from the scholarship of Black intellectualism more generally, and Black female intellectuals specifically, into the center of the debate. Importantly, it also situates the histories of Black women participating in the intellectual cultures of the United States much earlier than most previous scholarship. This book will be of interest to both undergraduate and postgraduate specialists and students in the fields of African American history, women’s and gender history, and American studies, as well as general readers interested in historical and biographical works.
Picture Freedom
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Author : Jasmine Nichole Cobb
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2015-04-03
Picture Freedom written by Jasmine Nichole Cobb and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-03 with Law categories.
"Picture Freedom provides a unique and nuanced interpretation of nineteenth-century African American life and culture. Focusing on visuality, print culture, and an examination of the parlor, Cobb has fashioned a book like none other, convincingly demonstrating how whites and blacks reimagined racial identity and belonging in the early republic."--Erica Armstrong Dunbar, author of A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City.
Activist Sentiments
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Author : Pier Gabrielle Foreman
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2009
Activist Sentiments written by Pier Gabrielle Foreman and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
Examining how nineteenth-century Black women writers engaged radical reform, sentiment and their various readerships
We Are Your Sisters
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Author : Dorothy Sterling
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 1997
We Are Your Sisters written by Dorothy Sterling and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
Contains 1000 oral interviews with American black women who lived between 1800 and the 1880s.
Gender And Rhetorical Space In American Life 1866 1910
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Author : Nan Johnson
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2002
Gender And Rhetorical Space In American Life 1866 1910 written by Nan Johnson and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
Nan Johnson demonstrates that after the Civil War, nonacademic or "parlor" traditions of rhetorical performance helped to sustain the icon of the white middle class woman as queen of her domestic sphere by promoting a code of rhetorical behavior for women that required the performance of conventional femininity. Through a lucid examination of the boundaries of that gendered rhetorical space--and the debate about who should occupy that space--Johnson explores the codes governing and challenging the American woman's proper rhetorical sphere in the postbellum years. While men were learning to preach, practice law, and set political policies, women were reading elocution manuals, letter-writing handbooks, and other conduct literature. These texts reinforced the conservative message that women's words mattered, but mattered mostly in the home. Postbellum pedagogical materials were designed to educate Americans in rhetorical skills, but they also persistently directed the American woman to the domestic sphere as her proper rhetorical space. Even though these materials appeared to urge the white middle class women to become effective speakers and writers, convention dictated that a woman's place was at the hearthside where her rhetorical talents were to be used in counseling and instructing as a mother and wife. Aided by twenty-one illustrations, Johnson has meticulously compiled materials from historical texts no longer readily available to the general public and, in so doing, has illuminated this intersection of rhetoric and feminism in the nineteenth century. The rhetorical pedagogies designed for a postbellum popular audience represent the cultural sites where a rethinking of women's roles becomes open controversy about how to value their words. Johnson argues this era of uneasiness about shifting gender roles and the icon of the "quiet woman" must be considered as evidence of the need for a more complete revaluing of women's space in historical discourse.