Black girlhood in the nineteenth century
"Long portrayed as a masculine endeavor, the African American struggle for progress often found expression through an unlikely literary figure: the black girl. Nazera Sadiq Wright uses heavy archival research on a wide range of texts about African American girls to explore this understudied phe...
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Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield
University of Illinois Press
[2016]
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Introduction: Toward a Genealogy of Black Girlhood
- Black Girlhood in the Early Black Press
- Youthful Girls and Prematurely Knowing Girls : Antebellum Black Girlhood
- "Teach your Daughters" : Black Girlhood and Mrs. N. F. Mossell's Advice Column in the New York Freeman
- Moving the Boundaries : Black Girlhood and Public Careers in Frances E.W. Harper's Trial and Triumph
- Black Girlhood in Early-Twentieth-Century Black Conduct Books
- Epilogue: The Changing Same? : Next-Generation Black Girlhood