Bury my heart in a free land : Black women intellectuals in modern U.S. history /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2018]
Description:	xxix, 322 pages ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	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. African American women -- Intellectual life. African Americans -- Intellectual life. Biography. History.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11428848

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Varying Form of Title:	Black women intellectuals in modern U.S. history
Other authors / contributors:	Williams, Hettie V., editor.
ISBN:	9781440835483 1440835489
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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. history, while at the same time demonstrating how these women used the public sphere and writing as an attempt at self-articulation. For these women, writing and speaking served simultaneously as acts of self-articulation and as calls to action. The art of testimony and confession was utilized by black women in their campaigns of social reform and beyond. Michel Foucault argues that "power is exercised from innumerable points, in the interplay of non-egalitarian and mobile relations." African American women despite living in an unequal society operationalized their voices in the quest for universal human rights throughout U.S. history as traditional, public, and organic intellectuals. This volume is divided into five major sections to illustrate this history."--Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Online version: Bury my heart in a free land Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2018] 9781440835490

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Song of Her Possibilities"-Black Women's Voices in the American Intellectual Tradition
Part I. Black Women Intellectuals in the 19th and 20th Centuries
1. Black Women, Black Ink: The "Word" of Black Women Abolitionist Feminisms
2. "To Make Myself and My People Whole": Ida B. Wells as a Public Intellectual
3. A Presence and a Voice: Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin and the Black Women's Club Movement
Part II. Black Women Intellectuals in the New Negro Era
4. "Never... Let Color Interfere": The Insurgent Black Intellectual Writing of Jessie Redmon Fauset
5. "Now You Cookin' with Gas": Zora Neale Hurston and Her Legacy, 1891-1960
6. The Realisms of Elizabeth Catlett
Part III. Black Women Intellectuals in the Civil Rights-Black Power Era
7. "Sounding the Trumpet": Anna Arnold Hedgeman and the Civil Rights Movement in the North
8. Pauli Murray: The Life of an American Intellectual
9. Wanda Coleman and Los Angeles: Reading Postmodern America from the Eye of the Cyclone
10. "Pro Black Women, Yet Anti No One": Black Women Intellectuals and the National Alliance of Black Feminists
Part IV. Black Women Intellectuals in the Post-Civil Rights Era
11. Bell hooks: Resistance Writing Beyond the Academy
12. "At the Core of the Broken Fruit": On Audre Lorde's Self-Definitions and the Critical Deployment of the Dahomey/Yoruba Lore
Part V. Black Women Intellectuals in the Public Square
13. She Who Could Never Be "Just" Anything: Toni Morrison, an American Intellectual
14. African American Women in the Public Square: Admiral Michelle Howard
About the Editor and Contributors
Index

Bury my heart in a free land : Black women intellectuals in modern U.S. history /

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