Women's Work

An Anthology of African-American Women's Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-533199-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 409 g

Women have always been historians. Whether in schoolrooms or kitchens, state houses or church pulpits, women functioned as teachers of history and historical interpreters, offering narrations of the past to criticize existent narratives and inspire new ones. Within African-American communities, women began to write histories in the years after the American Revolution. Distributed through churches, seminaries, public schools, and auxiliary societies, their stories of
the past translated ancient Africa, slavery, and ongoing American social reform to populist audiences North and South. In the United States, black women have labored to sustain the cogency of their race and their families through the promotion of education, Christian and historical, for themselves
and for their families. This book surveys the creative ways in which African American women harnessed the power of print to share their historical revisions with a broader public. These speeches, textbooks, poems, and polemics did more than just recount the past. They also protested their present status in the United States, using history to write a new story for the future of African America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F.

Lofton, Kathryn

Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Über Autor(innen)

Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Setting Down the Sacred Past: African-American Race Histories and Religion and Society in Frontier California.

Kathryn Lofton is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Religious Studies at Yale University.