Dark continent of our bodies
Subtitle: black feminism and the politics of respectability
By: E. Frances White.
Series: Mapping racisms
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: Aug 01, 2001
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Feminism -- United States -- History; Feminists -- United States; African American women; American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; Black nationalism -- United States; United States -- Race relations
Description: Takes a look at black feminism--its roots, its role, and its implications. From Charles Darwin and nineteenth-century racism to black nationalism and the Nation of Islam, from Baptist women's groups to James Baldwin; White takes on one institution after another as she re-centers the role of black women in the United States' intellectual heritage. She presents identity politics as a complex activity, with entangled branches of race and gender, of invisibility and voyeurism, of defiance and passivity and conformism. --From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-194).