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“That is a kind of rare books that quickly became the usual work in its field. Professor White has done justice to the complexity of her subject.”―Anne Firor Scott, Duke University
Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women within the plantation South assumed roles inside the circle of relatives and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles within the larger American society. This new edition of Ar’n’t I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave circle of relatives, exploring new ways of figuring out the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female slaves with the realities in their lives. Above all, this groundbreaking study shows us how black women experienced freedom within the Reconstruction South ― their heroic struggle to gain their rights, hold their families together, withstand economic and sexual oppression, and handle their sense of womanhood against all odds.
ISBN13: 9780393314816
Condition: New
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