Black Womens Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds
An astonishing wealth of literary and intellectual work by nineteenthcentury black women is being rediscovered and restored to print in scholarly and popular editions. In Kristin Waterss and Carol B. Conaways landmark edited collection, Black Womens Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds, sophisticated commentary on this rich body of work chronicles a powerful and interwoven legacy of activism based in social and political theories that helped shape the history of North America. The book meticulously reclaims this American legacy, providing a collection of critical analyses of the primary sources and their vital traditions. Written by leading scholars, Black Womens Intellectual Traditions is particularly powerful in its exploration of the pioneering thought and action of the nineteenthcentury black woman lecturer and essayist Maria W. Stewart, abolitionist Sojourner Truth, novelist and poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, educator Anna Julia Cooper, newspaper editor Mary Ann Shadd Cary, and activist Ida B. Wells. The distinguished contributors are Hazel V. Carby, Patricia Hill Collins, Karen BakerFletcher, Kristin Waters, R. Dianne Bartlow, Carol B. Conaway, Olga Idriss Davis, Vanessa Holford Diana, Evelyn Simien, Janice W. Fernheimer, Michelle N. Garfield, Joy James, Valerie PalmerMehta, Carla L. Peterson, Marilyn Richardson, Evelyn M. Simien, Ebony A. Utley, Mary Helen Washington, Melina Abdullah, and Lena Ampadu. The volume will interest scholars and readers of AfricanAmerican and womens studies, history, rhetoric, literature, poetry, sociology, political science, and philosophy.
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An astonishing wealth of literary and intellectual work by nineteenthcentury black women is being rediscovered and restored to print in scholarly and popular editions. In Kristin Waterss and Carol B. Conaways landmark edited collection, Black Womens Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds, sophisticated commentary on this rich body of work chronicles a powerful and interwoven legacy of activism based in social and political theories that helped shape the history of North America. The book meticulously reclaims this American legacy, providing a collection of critical analyses of the primary sources and their vital traditions. Written by leading scholars, Black Womens Intellectual Traditions is particularly powerful in its exploration of the pioneering thought and action of the nineteenthcentury black woman lecturer and essayist Maria W. Stewart, abolitionist Sojourner Truth, novelist and poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, educator Anna Julia Cooper, newspaper editor Mary Ann Shadd Cary, and activist Ida B. Wells. The distinguished contributors are Hazel V. Carby, Patricia Hill Collins, Karen BakerFletcher, Kristin Waters, R. Dianne Bartlow, Carol B. Conaway, Olga Idriss Davis, Vanessa Holford Diana, Evelyn Simien, Janice W. Fernheimer, Michelle N. Garfield, Joy James, Valerie PalmerMehta, Carla L. Peterson, Marilyn Richardson, Evelyn M. Simien, Ebony A. Utley, Mary Helen Washington, Melina Abdullah, and Lena Ampadu. The volume will interest scholars and readers of AfricanAmerican and womens studies, history, rhetoric, literature, poetry, sociology, political science, and philosophy.
