04031nam 2200709 450 991015161320332120200520144314.00-252-09901-X(CKB)3710000000951708(StDuBDS)EDZ0001639673(OCoLC)958498007(MdBmJHUP)muse56949(MiAaPQ)EBC4792696(Au-PeEL)EBL4792696(CaPaEBR)ebr11333907(EXLCZ)99371000000095170820170210h20162016 uy 0engur|||||||||||rdacontentrdacontentrdamediardacarrierBlack girlhood in the nineteenth century /Nazera Sadiq WrightUrabana, Chicago, Springfield, [Illinois] :University of Illinois Press,2016.©20161 online resource illustrations (black and white)Previously issued in print: 2016.0-252-08204-4 0-252-04057-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Toward a Genealogy of Black Girlhood -- Black Girlhood in the Early Black Press -- Youthful Girls and Prematurely Knowing Girls : Antebellum Black Girlhood -- "Teach your Daughters" : Black Girlhood and Mrs. N. F. Mossell's Advice Column in the New York Freeman -- Moving the Boundaries : Black Girlhood and Public Careers in Frances E.W. Harper's Trial and Triumph -- Black Girlhood in Early-Twentieth-Century Black Conduct Books -- Epilogue: The Changing Same? : Next-Generation Black Girlhood."Long portrayed as a masculine endeavor, the African American struggle for progress often found expression through an unlikely literary figure: the black girl. Nazera Sadiq Wright uses heavy archival research on a wide range of texts about African American girls to explore this understudied phenomenon. As Wright shows, the figure of the black girl in African American literature provided a powerful avenue for exploring issues like domesticity, femininity, and proper conduct. The characters' actions, however fictional, became a rubric for African American citizenship and racial progress. At the same time, their seeming dependence and insignificance allegorized the unjust treatment of African Americans. Wright reveals fascinating girls who, possessed of a premature knowing and wisdom beyond their years, projected a courage and resiliency that made them exemplary representations of the project of racial advance and citizenship"--Publisher description.African American girlsHistory19th centuryAfrican AmericansSocial conditions19th centuryAfrican AmericansPolitics and government19th centuryPolitical cultureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAfrican AmericansIntellectual life19th centuryAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAfrican Americans in literatureGirls in literaturePolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesRace relationsHistory19th centuryElectronic books.African American girlsHistoryAfrican AmericansSocial conditionsAfrican AmericansPolitics and governmentPolitical cultureHistoryAfrican AmericansIntellectual lifeAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.African Americans in literature.Girls in literature.Politics and literatureHistory305.89607309034Wright Nazera Sadiq1974-883442MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910151613203321Black girlhood in the nineteenth century1973222UNINA