Description: In Emancipation's Daughters, Riche Richardson examines iconic black women leaders who have contested racial stereotypes and constructed new national narratives of black womanhood in the United States. Drawing on literary texts and cultural representations, Richardson shows how five emblematic black women-Mary McLeod Bethune, Rosa Parks, Condoleezza Rice, Michelle Obama, and Beyonce-have challenged white-centered definitions of American identity. By using the rhetoric of motherhood and focusing on families and children, these leaders have defied racist images of black women, such as the mammy or the welfare queen, and rewritten scripts of femininity designed to exclude black women from civic participation. Richardson shows that these women's status as national icons was central to reconstructing black womanhood in ways that moved beyond dominant stereotypes. However, these formulations are often premised on heteronormativity and exclude black queer and trans women. Throughout Emancipation's Daughters, Richardson reveals new possibilities for inclusive models of blackness, national femininity, and democracy.
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EAN: 9781478009917
UPC: 9781478009917
ISBN: 9781478009917
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Book Title: Emancipation's Daughters: Re-Imagining Black Femin
Item Length: 22.9 cm
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Emancipation's Daughters: Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: Social Sciences, Zoology
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 567 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Riche Richardson
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Hardcover
