Community and Critique : The Rhetorical Activism of Black American Women's Memory Work.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

VanderHaagen, Sara C.

Series:

Movement rhetoric/rhetoric's movements

Movement Rhetoric Rhetoric's Movements Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Social conditions.

African American women.

Memory--Social aspects.

Memory.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2025.

Summary:

How Black American women have uplifted Black communities and critiqued dominant white memories In Community and Critique , Sara C.VanderHaagen analyzes Black women's memory work, a deliberate, public effort to create, preserve, revise, and circulate accounts of the past to strengthen community bonds and effect change.

Contents:

“To Embalm Her Memory in Song and Story”: Charting Black Women’s Community and Critical Memory Work

“To Strive by Their Example”: Invoking Exemplary Women in Public Speech

“Self-Emancipating Women”: Commemorative Critique by Black Women Speakers at the 1893 World’s Congress of Representative Women

“The Shadows of the Past”: Black Women’s Commemorative Stewardship and the Demise of the “Black Mammy” Monument

“Planting Good and Joy Instead”: Cultivating Community Feelings in Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction

Abundance, Memory, Risk.

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ISBN:

1-64336-613-0

OCLC:

1532409460