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UNINA9911027278203321 |
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Autore |
VanderHaagen Sara C |
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Community and Critique : The Rhetorical Activism of Black American Women's Memory Work |
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Columbia : , : University of South Carolina Press, , 2025 |
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©2025 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (228 pages) |
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Collana |
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Movement Rhetoric Rhetoric's Movements Series |
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Soggetti |
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African American women - Social conditions |
Memory - Social aspects |
United States Race relations History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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“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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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