Title Black Female Intellectuals in Nineteenth Century America Born to Bloom Unseen?

Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (213 p.) Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Images and Artwork -- Introduction: Searching for Black Female Intellectuals in Nineteenth-Century America -- 1 "Citizenship Divas" of Nineteenth-Century America: Black Female Intellectuals and the Complexities of Performance -- 2 "I Must Speak, I Must Think, I Must Act." [Laura Simmes, 1864]: The Christian Recorder, Literary Activism, and the Black Female Intellectual 3 "The Darling Offspring of Her Brain" [Harriet Powers, c. 1892]: Creativity, Quiet Activism, and Nineteenth-Century Black Female Artists as Intellectuals -- 4 "Oh Yea, Daughters of Africa, Awake! Awake! Arise" [Maria W. Stewart, 1831]: Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalism and Questions of Gender, Race, and Home -- 5 "Labor[ing] Advantageously in the Field" [Edmonia G. Highgate, 1864]: Black Female Educators and the Philosophy of Racial Uplift -- Conclusion: The Realities of Life (and Death) for Nineteenth-Century Black Female Intellectuals -- Bibliography -- Index Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject African American intellectuals. Women intellectuals. African American women -- Intellectual life -- 20th century African American intellectuals African American women -- Intellectual life Women intellectuals Form Electronic book ISBN 9781000833829 1000833828

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