Black women's intellectual traditions : speaking their minds / with a new preface by the editors ; edited by Kristin Waters and Carol B. Conaway.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Waters, Kristin (Editor)
Conaway, Carol B. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Waltham : Brandeis University Press, [2022]
Edition:New edition.
Subjects:
African American women > Intellectual life > 19th century.
African American women > Biography.
African American intellectuals > Biography.
African American women > Political activity > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Politics and government > 19th century.
African American philosophy.
Feminism > United States > History > 19th century.
African American intellectuals.
African American women.
African American women > Intellectual life.
African American women > Political activity.
African Americans > Politics and government.
Feminism.
United States.
1800-1899
Biographies.
History.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
History.
Physical Description:xviii, 462 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Carol B. Conway and Kristin Waters
  • Part I: Maria W. Stewart: black feminism in public places
  • Maria W. Stewart: America's first black woman political writers / Marilyn Richardson
  • Maria W. Stewart and the rhetoric of black preaching: perspectives on womanism and black nationalism / Lena Ampadu
  • A woman made of words: the rhetorical invention of Maria W. Stewart / Ebony A. Utley
  • "No throw-away woman": Maria W. Stewart as a forerunner of black feminist thought / Dianne Bartlow
  • Part II: incidents in the lives: free women and slaves
  • "Hear my voice, ye careless daughters": narratives of slave and free women before Emancipation / Hazel V. Carby
  • Literary societies: the work fo self-improvement and racial uplift / Michelle N. Garfield
  • "A sign unto this nation": Sojourner Truth, history, orature, and modernity / Carla L. Peterson
  • Part III: Harper, Hopkins, and Shadd Cary: writing our way to freedom
  • Narrative patternings of resistance in Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy and Pauline Hopkins' Contending Forces / Vanessa Holford Diana
  • "We are all bound up together": Francis Harper and feminist theory / Valerie Palmer-Mehta
  • Mary Ann Shadd Cary: a visionary of the black press / Carol B. Conway
  • Part IV: Anna Julia Cooper: a voice
  • Anna Julia Cooper: a voice from the South / Mary Helen Washington
  • A singing something: womanist reflections on Anna Julia Cooper / Karen Baker-Fletcher
  • Arguing from difference: Cooper, Emerson, Guizot, and a more harmonious America / Janice W. Fernheimer
  • Part V: leadership, activism, and the genius of Ida B. Wells
  • "I rose and found my voice": claiming "voice" in the rhetoric of Ida B. Wells / Olga Idriss Davis
  • The emergence of a black feminist leadership model: African-American women and political activism in the nineteenth century / Melina Abdullah
  • Shadowboxing: liberation limbos - Ida B. Wells / Joy James
  • Part VI: Black feminist theory: from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first
  • Some core themes of nineteenth-century black feminism / Kristin Waters
  • The politics of black feminist thought / Patricia Hill Collins
  • Black Feminist Theory: charting a course for Black Women's Studies in political science / Evelyn M. Simien.