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Belabored Professions: Narratives of African American Working Womanhood
Xiomara Santamarina
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Paperback. According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists. This book examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and defended the legitimacy of their self-supporting wage labor. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 281. Nice copy, with some shelfwear. Good to very good
Women promote the civic virtue of their labor. According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as ""doers of the word."" In ""Belabored Professions"", Xiomara Santamarina examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and defended the legitimacy of their self-supporting wage labor. Santamarina focuses on ""The Narrative of Sojourner Truth"", Eliza Potter's ""A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life"", Harriet Wilson's ""Our Nig"", and Elizabeth Keckley's ""Behind the Scenes"". She argues that beyond black reformers' calls for abolitionist work, these former slaves and freeborn black women wrote ... Read more
Women promote the civic virtue of their labor. According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as ""doers of the word."" In ""Belabored Professions"", Xiomara Santamarina examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and defended the legitimacy of their self-supporting wage labor. Santamarina focuses on ""The Narrative of Sojourner Truth"", Eliza Potter's ""A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life"", Harriet Wilson's ""Our Nig"", and Elizabeth Keckley's ""Behind the Scenes"". She argues that beyond black reformers' calls for abolitionist work, these former slaves and freeborn black women wrote ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807856482
SKU
KST0026952
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Ref
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About Xiomara Santamarina
XIOMARA SANTAMARINA is assistant professor of English and Afro American and African studies at the University of Michlgan, Ann Arbor.
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