Belabored professions: narratives of African American working womanhood
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press c2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-210) and index
Includes bibliographical references and index
Race, work, and literary authority in the Narrative of Sojourner Truth -- - The view from below : menial labor and self-reliance in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig -- - Enterprising women and the labors of femininity : Eliza Potter, Cincinnati hairdresser -- - Behind the scenes of Black labor : Elizabeth Keckley and the scandal of publicity
According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as "doers of the word." This book examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and defended the legitimacy of their self-supporting wage labor
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 222 p.)
ISBN:080787700X
9780807877005

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