Beyond respectability [electronic resource] : the intellectual thought of race women / Brittney C. Cooper.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cooper, Brittney C., 1980- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Series:Women, gender, and sexuality in American history
Subjects:
Terrell, Mary Church, > 1863-1954.
Murray, Pauli, > 1910-1985.
National Association of Colored Women (U.S.)
African American women > Intellectual life > 19th century.
African American women > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African American women > Biography.
African American intellectuals > Biography.
Genre:
Biography.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2017 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2017 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Intellectual thought of race women
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction: the duty of the true race woman
  • Organized anxiety : the National Association of Colored Women and the creation of the black public sphere
  • "Proper, dignified agitation" : the evolution of Mary Church Terrell
  • Queering Jane Crow : Pauli Murray's quest for an unhyphenated identity
  • The problems and possibilities of the Negro woman intellectual
  • Epilogue.