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Women's Work - An Anthology of African-American Women's Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance (Paperback)
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Women's Work - An Anthology of African-American Women's Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance (Paperback)
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Whether in schoolrooms or kitchens, state houses or church pulpits,
women have always been historians. Although few participated in the
academic study of history until the mid-twentieth century, women
functioned as primary translators and teachers, offering
explanations, allegories, and scholastic narrations of the past.
Though often lesser known that white women in the historical
literature, black women wrote textbooks, pedagogical polemics,
popular poems, and sermons assessing ancient Ethiopia, contemporary
Liberia, the role of the female historian, and the future of the
black race.
This anthology aims to bring together approximately sixteen
writings by African-American women between 1832 and 1920, the
period when they began to write for American audiences and to use
history to comment on political and social issues of the day. The
pieces are by more familiar nineteenth-century writers in black
America--like Maria Stewart, Francis E. W. Harper, and Alice
Dunbar-Nelson--as well as lesser-known mothers and teachers whose
participation in their local educational systems thrust them into
national intellectual conversations. Each piece will have a
headnote providing biographical information about its author as
well as contextual information about its publication and the topic
being discussed. The volume will contain a substantial introduction
to the overall enterprise of black women's historical writings.
Because the editors are both trained in American Studies and
religious history, their introduction will particularly highlight
religious themes and venues in which these writings were presented.
This book should appeal to general readers of books like those in
the Schomburg Libraryseries, as well as those who work and teach
American history, African American studies, womens studies,
American literature, and American religious history.
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