Courting communities : black female nationalism and "syncre-nationalism" in the nineteenth-century North / Kathy L. Glass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glass, Kathy L.

Series:

Studies in African American history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Intellectual life--19th century.

African American women.

Black nationalism--United States--History--19th century.

Black nationalism.

African American women--Political activity--History--19th century.

African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans--Politics and government--19th century.

Black nationalism in literature.

African Americans--Politics and government.

African American women--Political activity.

History.

African American women--Intellectual life.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 157 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

"Courting Communities" focuses on the writing and oratory of nineteenth-century African-American women whose racial uplift projects troubled the boundaries of race, nation and gender. In particular, it reexamines the politics of gender in nationalist movements and black women's creative response within and against both state and insurgent black nationalist discourses. "Courting Communities "highlights the ideas and rhetorical strategies of female activists considered to be less important than the prominent male nationalists. Yet their story is significant precisely because it does not fit into the pre-established categories of nationalism and leadership bequeathed to us from the past.

Contents:

Controversial collectivities : Sojourner Truth's search for home

Charting a course for the middle class : Maria Stewart's advice to the middle sector

Bi-national connections : Mary Ann Shadd Cary and the Afro-Canadian community

Tending to the roots : Anna Julia Cooper on social labor and harvest reaping

Inheriting community : or, educating Iola

Conclusion : community as continuum.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-153) and index.

ISBN:

0415979056

OCLC:

64453272

Publisher Number:

9780415979054