Making the World a Better Place (eBook)

African American Women Advocates, Activists, and Leaders, 1773-1900

Jacqueline Jones Royster (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
597 Seiten
University of Pittsburgh Press (Verlag)
978-0-8229-8991-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Centers Black Women’s Discourse and Sociopolitical Action from the Nation’s Founding through the Civil War and Beyond<b></b>

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In <i>Making the World a Better Place</i>, Royster argues that African American women must be taken seriously as historical actors who were more consistently and more variously engaged in community- and nation-building than they have been given credit for. Their considerable rhetorical expertise becomes evident when looking carefully at their work in terms of identity, agency, authority, and expressiveness. Their writings constitute a substantial artifactual record of their levels of engagement, their excellence in sociopolitical work, and the legacies of leadership and action. The writing of African American women during the nineteenth century reflects their own perceptions of the ways and means of their lives. They deserve to be recognized as consequential contributors to the narratives of the nation, rather than marginalized as a group. To that end, Jacqueline Jones Royster offers a deeper understanding, often through their own words, of these women, their practices, and their achievements.

Autor

<b>Jacqueline Jones Royster</b> is former Ivan Allen Jr. Chair in Liberal Arts and Technology and dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at the Georgia Institute of Technology and professor emerita at both The Ohio State University and Georgia Tech. Her research focuses on the intersections of the history of rhetoric, feminist studies, and cultural studies, with interests in the connections between human and civil rights, as well as in the digital humanities.<b> </b>She is the author of <i>Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change among African American Women</i> and <i>Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells-Barnett</i>, among other titles.<b></b>

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.6.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Composition, Literacy, and Culture
• Verlagsort: PIttsburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • Advocacy • african-american history • African-American Studies • african-american women • Cultural Studies • History of Rhetoric and Composition • literacy studies • rhetoric and composition • rhetoric and composition studies • socio-historical • University of Pittsburgh Press • U.S. History • women's studies
• ISBN-10: 0-8229-8991-3 / 0822989913
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-8991-2 / 9780822989912