Richardson Riche Richardson

Emancipation's Daughters (eBook, PDF)

Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body

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Produktbeschreibung

In Emancipation's Daughters, Riche Richardson examines iconic black women leaders who have contested racial stereotypes and constructed new national narratives of black womanhood in the United States. Drawing on literary texts and cultural representations, Richardson shows how five emblematic black women-Mary McLeod Bethune, Rosa Parks, Condoleezza Rice, Michelle Obama, and Beyonce-have challenged white-centered definitions of American identity. By using the rhetoric of motherhood and focusing on families and children, these leaders have defied racist images of black women, such as the mammy or the welfare queen, and rewritten scripts of femininity designed to exclude black women from civic participation. Richardson shows that these women's status as national icons was central to reconstructing black womanhood in ways that moved beyond dominant stereotypes. However, these formulations are often premised on heteronormativity and exclude black queer and trans women. Throughout Emancipation's Daughters, Richardson reveals new possibilities for inclusive models of blackness, national femininity, and democracy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478012504
• Artikelnr.: 66282450

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