Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Toward an intellectual history of black women
  • PART I: Diasporic beginnings
  • Born on the sea from Guinea: women's spiritual middle passages in the early black Atlantic
  • Phillis Wheatley, a public intellectual
  • The Hart sisters of Antigua: evangelical activism and "respectable" public politics in the era of black Atlantic slavery
  • PART II: Race and gender in the postemancipation era
  • The battle for womanhood is the battle for race: black women and nineteenth-century racial thought
  • A taste of the lash of criticism: racial progress, self-defense, and Christian intellectual thought in the work of Amelia E. Johnson
  • Frances E.W. Harper and the politics of intellectual maturity
  • PART III: Redefining the subject of study
  • Ann Petry's Harlem
  • Daughter of Haiti: Marie Viewx Chauvet
  • The polarities of space: segregation and Alice Walker's intervention in Southern Studies
  • Story, history, discourse: Maryse Condé's Segu and Afrodiasporic historical narration
  • PART IV: Intellectual activism
  • From ladies to women: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti and women's political activism in post-world war II Nigeria
  • Living by the word: June Jordan and Alice Walker's quest for a redemptive art and politics
  • Not to rely completely on the courts: Florynce Kennedy and black feminist leadership in the reproductive rights battle
  • Professor Merze Tate: diplomatic historian, cosmopolitan woman
  • PART V: The long view
  • Histories, fictions, and black womanhood bodies: race and gender in twenty-first-century politics
  • Contributors
  • Index.