Bury my heart in a free land : Black women intellectuals in modern U.S. history / Hettie V. Williams, editor.

"This book rejects the notion that black women were at the margin of American intellectual life. Black women as preachers, abolitionists, creative writers, and civil rights activists are examined here to illustrate the fundamental position that black women intellectuals occupied in modern U.S. histo...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Williams, Hettie V. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2018]
Subjects:
African American intellectuals > History.
African American women > Intellectual life.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African American intellectuals > Biography.
African American women > Biography.
African American intellectuals.
African American women.
History.
Genre:
Biography.
History.
Physical Description:xxix, 322 pages ; 25 cm
Variant Title:
Black women intellectuals in modern U.S. history
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Black women intellectuals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
  • Black women, black ink: the "word" of black women abolitionist feminisms / Marquis Bey
  • "To make myself and my people whole": Ida B. Wells as a public intellectual / Marsha J. Tyson Darling
  • A presence and a voice: Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin and the Black Women's Club movement / Teresa Blue Holden
  • Black women intellectuals in the new Negro era
  • "Never" let color interfere?: the insurgent black intellectual writing of Jessie Redmon Fauset / Christopher Allen Varlack
  • "Now you cookin' with gas": Zora Neale Hurston and her legacy / Nicole Anae
  • The realisms of Elizabeth Catlett
  • Kirstin L. Ellsworth
  • Black women intellectuals in the civil rights-black power era
  • "Sounding the trumpet": Anna Arnold Hedgeman and the civil rights movement in the north / Hettie V. Williams
  • Pauli Murray: the life of an American intellectual / Kenya Davis-Hayes
  • Wanda Coleman and Los Angeles: reading postmodern America from the eye of the cyclone / Charles Joseph
  • "Pro black women, yet anti no one": black women intellectuals and the national alliance of black feminists / Voichita Nachescu
  • Black women intellectuals in the post-civil rights era
  • bell hooks: resistance writing beyond the academy / Ewa Kleczaj-Siara
  • "At the core of the broken fruit?: on Audre Lorde's self-definitions and the critical deployment of the Dahomey/Yoruba lore / J. Edgar Bauer
  • Black women intellectuals in the public square
  • She who could never be ?just? anything: Toni Morrison, an American intellectual
  • Marquis Bey
  • African American women in the public sphere: Admiral Michelle Howard
  • Melissa Ziobro.