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Record Nr.

UNINA9911027278203321

Autore

VanderHaagen Sara C

Titolo

Community and Critique : The Rhetorical Activism of Black American Women's Memory Work

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia : , : University of South Carolina Press, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

1-64336-613-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 pages)

Collana

Movement Rhetoric Rhetoric's Movements Series

Classificazione

LAN015000

SOC028000

Disciplina

305.48896073

Soggetti

African American women - Social conditions

Memory - Social aspects

United States Race relations History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

“To Embalm Her Memory in Song and Story”: Charting Black Women’s Community and Critical Memory Work -- “To Strive by Their Example”: Invoking Exemplary Women in Public Speech -- “Self-Emancipating Women”: Commemorative Critique by Black Women Speakers at the 1893 World’s Congress of Representative Women -- “The Shadows of the Past”: Black Women’s Commemorative Stewardship and the Demise of the “Black Mammy” Monument -- “Planting Good and Joy Instead”: Cultivating Community Feelings in Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction -- Abundance, Memory, Risk.

Sommario/riassunto

How Black American women have uplifted Black communities and critiqued dominant white memories In Community and Critique , Sara C.VanderHaagen analyzes Black women's memory work, a deliberate, public effort to create, preserve, revise, and circulate accounts of the past to strengthen community bonds and effect change.