Belabored professions : narratives of African American working womanhood /

Belabored professions : narratives of African American working womanhood /

According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as "doers of the word." This book examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and defended the legitimacy of their self-supportin...

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Main Author: Santamarina, Xiomara
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
1800-1899
American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
African American women > Biography > History and criticism.
African American women > Intellectual life > 19th century.
African American women in the professions > History.
African American women > Employment > History.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 19th century.
Autobiography > African American authors.
African American women in literature.
Autobiography > Women authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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