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In 1861, Harriet Jacobs became the first formerly enslaved African
American woman to publish a book-length account of her life. In
crafting her coming-of-age story, she insisted upon biographical
accuracy and bold creativity telling the truth while giving herself
and others fictionalized names. She also adapted conventions from
other popular genres, the sentimental novel and the slave
narrative. Then, despite facing obstacles not encountered by Black
men and white women, she orchestrated the book's publication and
became a traveling bookseller in an effort to inspire passive
Americans to support the abolition of slavery.Engaging with the
latest research on Jacobs's life and work, this edition helps
readers to understand the enormity of Jacobs's achievement in
writing, publishing, and distributing her life story. However, it
also shows how this monumental accomplishment was only the
beginning of her contributions, given her advocacy work over the
nearly forty years that she lived after its publication. As a
survivor of sexual abuse who became an advocate, Jacobs laid a
foundation for activist movements such as #BlackLivesMatter and
#MeToo. This edition also features six appendices, placing
resources at readers' fingertips that further illuminate the issues
raised by Jacobs's remarkable life and legacy.
Frances Harper's fourth novel follows the beautiful Iola Leroy to
tell the story of black families in slavery,during the Civil War,
and after Emancipation. Written by the foremost black woman
activist of thenineteenth century, the novel sheds light on the
movements for abolition, public education, and votingrights. This
edition engages the latest research on Harper's life and work and
offers way to teach these majormoments in United States history in
ways that center the experiences of African Americans.
Theappendices provide primary documents that help readers do what
they are seldom encouraged to do:consider the experiences and
perspectives of people who are not white.
Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance,
and Citizenship, 1890-1930 demonstrates that popular lynching plays
were mechanisms through which African American communities survived
actual and photographic mob violence. Often available in
periodicals, lynching plays were read aloud or acted out by black
church members, schoolchildren, and families. Koritha Mitchell
shows that African Americans performed and read the scripts in
community settings to certify to each other that lynching victims
were not the isolated brutes that dominant discourses made them out
to be. Instead, the play scripts often described victims as
honorable heads of households being torn from model domestic units
by white violence. In closely analyzing the political and spiritual
uses of black theatre during the Progressive Era, Mitchell
demonstrates that audiences were shown affective ties in black
families, a subject often erased in mainstream images of African
Americans. Examining lynching plays as archival texts that embody
and reflect broad networks of sociocultural activism and exchange
in the lives of black Americans, Mitchell finds that audiences were
rehearsing and improvising new ways of enduring in the face of
widespread racial terrorism. Images of the black soldier, lawyer,
mother, and wife helped readers assure each other that they were
upstanding individuals who deserved the right to participate in
national culture and politics. These powerful community coping
efforts helped African Americans band together and withstand the
nation's rejection of them as viable citizens. The Left of Black
interview with author Koritha Mitchell begins at 14:00. An
interview with Koritha Mitchell at The Ohio Channel.
Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African
American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they
invest in traditional domesticity. Instead of the respectability
and safety granted white homemakers, black women endure pejorative
labels, racist governmental policies, attacks on their citizenship,
and aggression meant to keep them in "their place." Tracing how
African Americans define and redefine success in a nation
determined to deprive them of it, Mitchell plumbs the works of
Frances Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hansberry, Toni
Morrison, Michelle Obama, and others. These artists honor black
homes from slavery and post-emancipation through the Civil Rights
era to "post-racial" America. Mitchell follows black families
asserting their citizenship in domestic settings while the larger
society and culture marginalize and attack them, not because they
are deviants or failures but because they meet American standards.
Powerful and provocative, From Slave Cabins to the White House
illuminates the links between African American women's homemaking
and citizenship in history and across literature.
Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African
American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they
invest in traditional domesticity. Instead of the respectability
and safety granted white homemakers, black women endure pejorative
labels, racist governmental policies, attacks on their citizenship,
and aggression meant to keep them in "their place." Tracing how
African Americans define and redefine success in a nation
determined to deprive them of it, Mitchell plumbs the works of
Frances Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hansberry, Toni
Morrison, Michelle Obama, and others. These artists honor black
homes from slavery and post-emancipation through the Civil Rights
era to "post-racial" America. Mitchell follows black families
asserting their citizenship in domestic settings while the larger
society and culture marginalize and attack them, not because they
are deviants or failures but because they meet American standards.
Powerful and provocative, From Slave Cabins to the White House
illuminates the links between African American women's homemaking
and citizenship in history and across literature.
Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance,
and Citizenship, 1890-1930 demonstrates that popular lynching plays
were mechanisms through which African American communities survived
actual and photographic mob violence. Often available in
periodicals, lynching plays were read aloud or acted out by black
church members, schoolchildren, and families. Koritha Mitchell
shows that African Americans performed and read the scripts in
community settings to certify to each other that lynching victims
were not the isolated brutes that dominant discourses made them out
to be. Instead, the play scripts often described victims as
honorable heads of households being torn from model domestic units
by white violence. In closely analyzing the political and spiritual
uses of black theatre during the Progressive Era, Mitchell
demonstrates that audiences were shown affective ties in black
families, a subject often erased in mainstream images of African
Americans. Examining lynching plays as archival texts that embody
and reflect broad networks of sociocultural activism and exchange
in the lives of black Americans, Mitchell finds that audiences were
rehearsing and improvising new ways of enduring in the face of
widespread racial terrorism. Images of the black soldier, lawyer,
mother, and wife helped readers assure each other that they were
upstanding individuals who deserved the right to participate in
national culture and politics. These powerful community coping
efforts helped African Americans band together and withstand the
nation's rejection of them as viable citizens. The Left of Black
interview with author Koritha Mitchell begins at 14:00. An
interview with Koritha Mitchell at The Ohio Channel.
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