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Literacy in a Long Blues Note - Black Women's Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Paperback)
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Literacy in a Long Blues Note - Black Women's Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Paperback)
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
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Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women's Literature and Music
in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries traces the
evolution of Black women's literacy practices from 1892 to 1934. A
dynamic chronological study, the book explores how Black women
public intellectuals, creative writers, and classic blues singers
sometimes utilize singular but other times overlapping forms of
literacies to engage in debates on race. The book begins with Anna
J. Cooper's philosophy on race literature as one method for social
advancement. From there, author Coretta M. Pittman discusses women
from the Woman's and New Negro Eras, including but not limited to
Angelina Weld Grimke, Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, and Zora Neale Hurston.
The volume closes with an exploration of Victoria Spivey's blues
philosophy. The women examined in this book employ forms of
transformational, transactional, or specular literacy to challenge
systems of racial oppression. However, Literacy in a Long Blues
Note argues against prevalent myths that a singular vision for
racial uplift dominated the public sphere in the latter decade of
the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth
century. Instead, by including Black women from various social
classes and ideological positions, Pittman reveals alternative
visions. Contrary to more moderate predecessors of the Woman's Era
and contemporaries in the New Negro Era, classic blues singers like
Mamie Smith advanced new solutions against racism. Early
twentieth-century writer Angelina Weld Grimke criticized
traditional methods for racial advancement as Jim Crow laws
tightened restrictions against Black progress. Ultimately, the
volume details the agency and literacy practices of these
influential women.
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