Disfigured Images: The Historical Assault on Afro-American Women by Patricia Mor

Description: Disfigured Images by Patricia Morton Focusing on the scholarly "literature of fact", this study explores the telling - and frequent mis-telling - of the story of black women during a century of American historiography, from the late 19th century to the present day, looking at the black womans "prefabricated past". FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Much of the material unearthed by this book is ugly, states historiographer Patricia Morton who exposes profoundly dehumanizing constructions of reality embedded in American scholarship as it has attempted to render the history of the Afro-American woman. Focusing on the scholarly literature of fact rather than on fictional or popular portrayals, Disfigured Images explores the telling--and frequent mis-telling--of the story of black women during a century of American historiography beginning in the late nineteenth century and extending to the present. Morton finds that during this period, a large body of scholarly literature was generated that presented little fact and much fiction about black womens history. The books ten chapters take long and lingering looks at the black womans prefabricated past. Contemporary revisionist studies with their goals of discovering and articulating the real nature of the slave womans experience and role are thoroughly examined in the conclusion. Disfigured Images complements current work by recognizing in its findings a long-needed refutation of a caricatured, mythical version of black womens history.Mortons introduction presents an overview of her subject emphasizing the mythical, ingrained nature of the black womans image in historiography as a natural and permanent slave. The succeeding chapters use historical and social science works as primary sources to explore such issues as the foundations of sexism-racism, the writing of W.E.B. DuBois, twentieth century notions of black women, current black and womens studies, new and old images of motherhood, and more. The conclusion investigates how and why recent American historiographical scholarship has banished the old myths by presenting a more accurate history of black women. This keenly perceptive and original study should find an influential place in both womens studies and black studies programs as well as in American history, American literature, and sociology departments. With its unusually complete panorama of the period covered it would be a unique and valuable addition to courses such as slavery, the American South, women in (North) American history, Afro-American history, race and sex in American literature and discourse, and the sociology of race. Author Biography PATRICIA MORTON is Associate Professor in the History Department at Trent University, Ontario, Canada. Her previously published journal articles include, among others: From Invisible Man to New People: The Recent Discovery of the American Mulatto, The New Police Historiography, My Ol Black Mammy in American Historiography, and Southern Women. Table of Contents PrefaceIntroductionThe Myths of Black WomanhoodA Century Ago: The Foundations of Sexism-RacismThe Age of Jim Crow: White and Black Stories of Slave WomenThe All-Mother Vision of W. E. B. Du BoisSlave Women of the Sociological ImaginationPrefabricated Women of the Mid-Twentieth CenturyThe Invisible, Shrinking WomanBlack Studies/Womens Studies: Discovering Black Womens History?Rediscovering the Black Family: New and Old Images of MotherhoodToward Discovering Slave WomenConclusionSelected BibliographyIndex Review ?Morton is a major figure in the revisionist history of African American women. Morton thoroughly reviews the depiction of black women in historical writing and in the literature of the other social sciences, from the 19th century to the present. She finds a mostly negative portrait, e.g., sexual promiscuity, poor mothering, matriarchal pathology, and emasculating dominance of African American males. The partial exception to the negative image is the stereotyped white portrait of the tough, jolly, warm black Mammy so popular in the movies and on pancake boxes. Sexism is mixed with racism in the black womans portrait. The list of authors, white and black, accepting these stereotyped images in whole or in part reads like a whos who of American social science: Robert Park, Daniel Moynihan, Nathan Glazer, Eugene Genovese, E. Franklin Frazier, Charles Johnson, Kenneth Stampp, Stanley Elkins, Thomas Pettigrew, and Abraham Kardiner. Morton presents a detailed analysis of how, and to a lesser extent why, these negative images of African American women have predominated in social science articles and books, almost all of which have been written by men. Concluding chapters deal with new research on black Americans and the women of Africa. Selected bibliography. All levels.?-Choice"Morton is a major figure in the revisionist history of African American women. Morton thoroughly reviews the depiction of black women in historical writing and in the literature of the other social sciences, from the 19th century to the present. She finds a mostly negative portrait, e.g., sexual promiscuity, poor mothering, matriarchal pathology, and emasculating dominance of African American males. The partial exception to the negative image is the stereotyped white portrait of the tough, jolly, warm black Mammy so popular in the movies and on pancake boxes. Sexism is mixed with racism in the black womans portrait. The list of authors, white and black, accepting these stereotyped images in whole or in part reads like a whos who of American social science: Robert Park, Daniel Moynihan, Nathan Glazer, Eugene Genovese, E. Franklin Frazier, Charles Johnson, Kenneth Stampp, Stanley Elkins, Thomas Pettigrew, and Abraham Kardiner. Morton presents a detailed analysis of how, and to a lesser extent why, these negative images of African American women have predominated in social science articles and books, almost all of which have been written by men. Concluding chapters deal with new research on black Americans and the women of Africa. Selected bibliography. All levels."-Choice Promotional Morton is a major figure in the revisionist history of African American women... Morton presents a detailed analysis of how, and to a lesser extent why, negative images of African American women have predominated in social science articles and books, almost all of which have been written by men. All levels. Choice Long Description Much of the material unearthed by this book is ugly, states historiographer Patricia Morton who exposes profoundly dehumanizing constructions of reality embedded in American scholarship as it has attempted to render the history of the Afro-American woman. Focusing on the scholarly literature of fact rather than on fictional or popular portrayals, Disfigured Images explores the telling--and frequent mis-telling--of the story of black women during a century of American historiography beginning in the late nineteenth century and extending to the present. Morton finds that during this period, a large body of scholarly literature was generated that presented little fact and much fiction about black womens history. The books ten chapters take long and lingering looks at the black womans prefabricated past. Contemporary revisionist studies with their goals of discovering and articulating the real nature of the slave womans experience and role are thoroughly examined in the conclusion. Disfigured Images complements current work by recognizing in its findings a long-needed refutation of a caricatured, mythical version of black womens history. Mortons introduction presents an overview of her subject emphasizing the mythical, ingrained nature of the black womans image in historiography as a natural and permanent slave. The succeeding chapters use historical and social science works as primary sources to explore such issues as the foundations of sexism-racism, the writing of W.E.B. DuBois, twentieth century notions of black women, current black and womens studies, new and old images of motherhood, and more. The conclusion investigates how and why recent American historiographical scholarship has banished the old myths by presenting a more accurate history of black women. This keenly perceptive and original study should find an influential place in both womens studies and black studies programs as well as in American history, American literature, and sociology departments. With its unusually complete panorama of the period covered it would be a unique and valuable addition to courses such as slavery, the American South, women in (North) American history, Afro-American history, race and sex in American literature and discourse, and the sociology of race. Promotional "Headline" Morton is a major figure in the revisionist history of African American women. . . . Morton presents a detailed analysis of how, and to a lesser extent why, negative images of African American women have predominated in social science articles and books, almost all of which have been written by men. All levels. Choice Details ISBN0313272964 Author Patricia Morton Year 1991 ISBN-10 0313272964 ISBN-13 9780313272967 Format Hardcover Country of Publication United States Place of Publication Westport Short Title DISFIGURED IMAGES Language English Media Book Series Number 144 Publication Date 1991-05-21 Illustrations black & white illustrations Pages 192 Subtitle The Historical Assault on Afro-American Women DEWEY 305.48896073 Imprint Praeger Publishers Inc UK Release Date 1991-05-21 NZ Release Date 1991-05-21 US Release Date 1991-05-21 Audience Age 7-17 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Series Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets Alternative 9780275938857 Audience Undergraduate AU Release Date 1991-05-20 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:7077310;

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