Riche Richardson

Emancipation's Daughters

Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body

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Produktbeschreibung

Riche Richardson examines how five iconic black women-Mary McLeod Bethune, Rosa Parks, Condoleezza Rice, Michelle Obama, and Beyonce-defy racial stereotypes and construct new national narratives of black womanhood in the United States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9781478010975
• ISBN-10: 1478010975
• Artikelnr.: 59580467

Autorenporträt

Riché Richardson is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University and author of Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Acknowledgments  xxi
Introduction: An Exemplary American Woman  1
1. Mary McLeod Bethune's "My Last Will and Testament" and Her National
Legacy  39
2. From Rosa Parks's Quiet Strength to Memorializing a National Mother  87
3. America's Chief Diplomat: The Politics of Condoleezza Rice from
Autobiography to Art and Fashion  128
4. First Lady and "Mom-in-Chief": The Voice and Vision of Michelle Obama in
the Video South Side Girl and in American Grown  178
Conclusion: Beyoncé's South and the Birth of a "Formation" Nation  220
Notes  235
Bibliography  257
Index  281