In the nineteenth century, African American women’s womanhood was denied and constantly under attack. After emancipation (1865), they crafted their own definition of what it meant to be a woman of color in the United States. At the turn of the century, as Victorianism was gradually yielding ground, the model of the modern, “new woman” emerged. In this context, African American women went on redefining the meaning of black womanhood. This dissertation examines how some African American women activists, clubwomen and intellectuals belonging to the middle and upper-classes reflected upon being a woman and asserted their womanhood between the 1860s and the early 1920s.This study analyzes the attitudes and strategies they adopted, in their life ...
Popular debates about African American womanhood in the twentieth century have generated a primarily...
Femmes de conscience, Aspects du féminisme américain (1848-1875) éclaire les débats qui animent la p...
L'esclavage constitue le chronotope de "Tituba" de M. Condé et de "Beloved" de T. Morrison. Il est u...
In the nineteenth century, African American women’s womanhood was denied and constantly under attack...
Au XIXème siècle et jusqu’au début du XXème siècle, les Africaines Américaines étaient exclues des c...
Etant amenées à subir à la fois une discrimination raciale et sexuelle, les femmes noires ont été pa...
From the very beginning, the racial hierarchy structured African American women’s lives. They were p...
African-American women, for being both black and female, suffer from interlocking systems of oppress...
Negritude Feminisms: Francophone Black Women Writers and Activists in France, Martinique and Senegal...
This is a study of the African American men and women who were active in efforts to improve the posi...
AbstractLes ombres noires de Saint Domingue: The Impact of Black Women on Gender & Racial Bound...
To date, there is limited literature documenting contributions of people of African descent to Canad...
L’art et la littérature ont toujours été partie prenante de la lutte pour les droits civiques et l’é...
This dissertation brings a different geographic focus, and a needed racial focus as well, to a burge...
<p>During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a cadre of black women merged the ideal...
Popular debates about African American womanhood in the twentieth century have generated a primarily...
Femmes de conscience, Aspects du féminisme américain (1848-1875) éclaire les débats qui animent la p...
L'esclavage constitue le chronotope de "Tituba" de M. Condé et de "Beloved" de T. Morrison. Il est u...
In the nineteenth century, African American women’s womanhood was denied and constantly under attack...
Au XIXème siècle et jusqu’au début du XXème siècle, les Africaines Américaines étaient exclues des c...
Etant amenées à subir à la fois une discrimination raciale et sexuelle, les femmes noires ont été pa...
From the very beginning, the racial hierarchy structured African American women’s lives. They were p...
African-American women, for being both black and female, suffer from interlocking systems of oppress...
Negritude Feminisms: Francophone Black Women Writers and Activists in France, Martinique and Senegal...
This is a study of the African American men and women who were active in efforts to improve the posi...
AbstractLes ombres noires de Saint Domingue: The Impact of Black Women on Gender & Racial Bound...
To date, there is limited literature documenting contributions of people of African descent to Canad...
L’art et la littérature ont toujours été partie prenante de la lutte pour les droits civiques et l’é...
This dissertation brings a different geographic focus, and a needed racial focus as well, to a burge...
<p>During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a cadre of black women merged the ideal...
Popular debates about African American womanhood in the twentieth century have generated a primarily...
Femmes de conscience, Aspects du féminisme américain (1848-1875) éclaire les débats qui animent la p...
L'esclavage constitue le chronotope de "Tituba" de M. Condé et de "Beloved" de T. Morrison. Il est u...