A seat at the table : Black women public intellectuals in US history and culture /
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Imprint: | Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023] |
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Description: | xiii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13356186 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Hettie V. Williams
- Summary
- Chapter 1. "Fired with a holy ambition": Maria W. Stewart and the foundations of Black women's jeremiadic tradition / Lacey P. Hunter
- Chapter 2. "Did not Mary first preach the risen savior?" Black preaching women as public intellectuals / Hettie V. Williams
- Summary
- Chapter 3. "Our group of women": Mary McLeod Bethune, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, and Black women in the Christian intellectual tradition / Tejai Beulah
- Chapter 4. We led the way: Black women and the civil rights movement at Morgan State College / Simone R. Barrett
- Chapter 5. Elreta Melton Alexander: A theoretical approach / Virginia L. Summey
- Chapter 6. More than an icon: Taking Shirley Chisholm at her word / Marissa Jackson Sow
- Chapter 7. Lenora B. Fulani: Distinguished postmodern revolutionary / Omar H. Ali and Tiera C. Moore
- Summary
- Chapter 8. "Whoever heard of a woman running a newspaper?" The public life and intellectual odyssey of Charlotta Bass / John Portlock
- Chapter 9. "She did it for the culture": Black women visual artists as public intellectuals in the new Negro era / Lauren T. Rorie
- Chapter 10. Mildred Fay Jefferson and the pro-life movement: A conservative Black woman public intellectual / Hettie V. Williams
- Chapter 11. Naked truths: Dr. Joycelyn Elders, public health, and sex education in the 1990s / Tedi A. Pascarella
- Chapter 12. What she knows for sure: Oprah Winfrey and the tradition of Black spiritual but not religious writing / Summary
- Chapter 13. "Know where you are going and . . . remember where you came from": Black women in the Army during World War II / Sandra Bolzenius
- Chapter 14. Seizing opportunity: African American women in the postwar military / Tanya L. Roth
- Chapter 15. "Regardless of what life presents you": Black women public intellectuals in the post-Vietnam US military / Carol Fowler and Melissa Ziobro
- About the editors and contributors
- Index.