Title Toward an intellectual history of Black women / edited by Mia Bay, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. Contents Introduction: Toward an intellectual history of black women -- PART I: Diasporic beginnings -- Born on the sea from Guinea: women's spiritual middle passages in the early black Atlantic -- Phillis Wheatley, a public intellectual -- The Hart sisters of Antigua: evangelical activism and "respectable" public politics in the era of black Atlantic slavery -- PART II: Race and gender in the postemancipation era -- The battle for womanhood is the battle for race: black women and nineteenth-century racial thought -- A taste of the lash of criticism: racial progress, self-defense, and Christian intellectual thought in the work of Amelia E. Johnson -- Frances E.W. Harper and the politics of intellectual maturity -- PART III: Redefining the subject of study -- Ann Petry's Harlem -- Daughter of Haiti: Marie Viewx Chauvet -- The polarities of space: segregation and Alice Walker's intervention in Southern Studies -- Story, history, discourse: Maryse Condé's Segu and Afrodiasporic historical narration -- PART IV: Intellectual activism -- From ladies to women: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti and women's political activism in post-world war II Nigeria -- Living by the word: June Jordan and Alice Walker's quest for a redemptive art and politics -- Not to rely completely on the courts: Florynce Kennedy and black feminist leadership in the reproductive rights battle -- Professor Merze Tate: diplomatic historian, cosmopolitan woman -- PART V: The long view -- Histories, fictions, and black womanhood bodies: race and gender in twenty-first-century politics -- Contributors -- Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Women, Black -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- Intellectual life African American women -- Intellectual life SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Negras -- Atlántico (Región) -- Vida intelectual Afronorteamericanas -- Vida intelectual African American women -- Intellectual life Women, Black -- Intellectual life Atlantic Ocean Region Form Electronic book Author Bay, Mia, editor. Griffin, Farah Jasmine, editor. Jones, Martha S., editor. Savage, Barbara Dianne, editor. ISBN 9781469623108 1469623102 9781469620923 1469620928

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