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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1. Verfasser: Wright, Nazera Sadiq 1974- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 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