Mothering the Race
Subtitle:  Women's Narratives of Reproduction, 1890-1930
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: December 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780252026904
Subjects: Literature of special Lesbian interest; Marriage, family & other relationships; Sociology Of Women; Women In Literature; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Sociology; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Feminist; Women's Studies - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Women Authors; General; Sociology - Marriage & Family; History; Motherhood; Motherhood in literature; Racism; United States
First sentence: IN HER CONTRIBUTION to a volume of essays titled A New Negro for a New Century: An Accurate and Up-to-Date Record of the Upward Struggles of the Negro Race (1900), Fannie Barrier Williams lamented the lack of attention paid to the black mother's role in the "upward struggle," nothing that "the negro as an 'alien' race, as a 'problem,' as an 'industrial factor' . . . [is] well known and instantly recognized; but colored women as mothers, as homemakers, as the center and source of the social life of the race have received little or no attention" ("Club Movement" 379).