Women's work : an anthology of African-American women's historical writings from antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance

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Women's work : an anthology of African-American women's historical writings from antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance

Title remainder

an anthology of African-American women's historical writings from antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance

Statement of responsibility

edited by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp and Kathryn Lofton

Contributor

• Lofton, Kathryn
• Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F., 1960-

Subject

• African American historians
• African American women -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
• African American women -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
• African American women -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
• African American women -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
• African American women authors
• African Americans -- Historiography
• African Americans -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
• African Americans -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
• Women historians -- United States

Genre

• Sources

Language

eng

Summary

"This anthology aims to bring together writings by African-American women between 1832 and 1920, the period when they began to write for American audiences and to use history to comment on political and social issues of the day. The pieces are by more familiar nineteenth-century writers in Black America--like Maria Stewart, Francis E. W. Harper, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson--as well as lesser-known mothers and teachers whose participation in their local educational systems thrust them into national intellectual conversations. Each piece will have a headnote providing biographical information about its author as well as contextual information about its publication and the topic being discussed. The volume will contain a substantial introduction to the overall enterprise of Black women's historical writings. Because the editors are both trained in American studies and religious history, their introduction will particularly highlight religious themes and venues in which these writings were presented. This book should appeal to general readers of books like those in the Schomburg Library series, as well as those who work and teach American history, African American studies, women's studies, American literature, and American religious history"--Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

973

Index

no index present

LC call number

E184.6

LC item number

.W66 2010

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography