Beyond Respectability : The Intellectual Thought of Race Women /

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Beyond Respectability" charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. Cooper...

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Main Author: Cooper, Brittney C., 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Terrell, Mary Church, > 1863-1954.
Murray, Pauli, > 1910-1985.
National Association of Colored Women (U.S.)
AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN > BIOGRAPHY.
African American women > Intellectual life.
African American women.
African American intellectuals.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Intellectuels noirs americains > Biographies.
Noires americaines > Biographies.
Noires americaines > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siecle.
Noires americaines > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siecle.
African American intellectuals > Biography.
African American women > Biography.
African American women > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African American women > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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