Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction

Zusatztext Church, school, and club constitute the triumvirate of associations central to the lives of the 60 Afro-American women born in the United States or Canada between the mid-1740s and the end of the nineteenth century and chronicled in Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction....It is distinguished as a collaborative effort by a group of self-confident and historically self-conscious black women who were determined to preserve the stories of sacrifice and struggle their forebears had endured. Klappentext Hallie Q. Brown and twenty-eight contributors recreate the lives of sixty remarkable Afro-American women! all born in the United States or Canada between the 1740s and the end of the nineteenth century. Slaves and social workers! artists and activists! cake makers and home makers! their stories offer unusual insight into female networks! patterns of voluntary association! work! religion! family life! and black women's culture. Zusammenfassung Hallie Q. Brown and twenty-eight contributors recreate the lives of sixty remarkable Afro-American women! all born in the United States or Canada between the 1740s and the end of the nineteenth century. Slaves and social workers! artists and activists! cake makers and home makers! their stories offer unusual insight into female networks! patterns of voluntary association! work! religion! family life! and black women's culture.

Product details

• Authors: Hallie Q. Brown, Hallie Q. Burkett Brown, Brown Hallie Q., Randall K. Burkett
• Assisted by: Randall K. Burkett (Illustration), Randall K. Burkett (Introduction), Burkett Randall K. (Introduction)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.1988
• EAN: 9780195052374
• ISBN: 978-0-19-505237-4
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers; Schomburg Library of Nineteent; The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Ethnic Studies, Canada, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, FICTION / Literary, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: general, Biography: historical, political & military, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / United States / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, HISTORY / Canada / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian, HISTORY / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, c 1500 onwards to present day, Archaeology, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Fiction: general and literary, Gender studies: women and girls, History and Archaeology, Biography: historical, political and military, Literature: history and criticism, Black & Asian Studies, FICTION / African American & Black / General, HISTORY / African American & Black, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / African American & Black, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional